On Thursday 15 October 1998, at 17 h 31, the keyboard of Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files. Magicfilter will print them, as > will a2ps (maybe some others will too, haven't tried it.) Netscape reads ... > will grep them. vim reads them just fine. I'm drawing a blank on things > I can't do with .gz'd files... emacs glimpse (don't tell me about .glimpse_filters, it's awfully slow) mutt -a (if the recipient does not have gzip, for instance a regular MacOS or MS-Windows user. The problem is probably the same for all MUA.) agrep (an approximative grep) And this is just what I use often. Do you mean that *every* application in Debian should be patched to read *.gz files?