Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3

ya cant live without it :)

-Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Potkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?


> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> > Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format.  What does Joe Average do
> > to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over?  (Nifty me of course
> > uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on.  Seems to be
> > ideal.  However then one encounters patches of HTML docs, which seem
> > best suited for galeon, mozilla, not w3...)
>
> There are also pdf and dvi documents to consider.
>
> The mime-support package, which I imagine is installed on your system,
> contains run-mailcap.  Invoking it as `see' you'll be able to view a doc
> with a program determined from the entries in the mime.types and mailcap
> files in /etc.  Personally, I customise ~/.mailcap with viewing programs
> of my choice.
>
> Brian.
>
>
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