Iain Buchanan writes:
> Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation (
>> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now
>> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the
>> decompressed form, hmm...?

> why?

> less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2
> cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d
> cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.bz2

I know how to view and decompress compressed-files, but I don't want to
decompress file and but then after decompressing, I'll lose the ability
to track the file from portage's database.

Ashish
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