On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 12:30:26AM +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote: > > - I have 486 machines here where a gzip invocation causes a delay. I prefer > > small files (and > > that means most files since most files are small) to be uncompressed. > > Speed is a major > > issue on those machines. > > How often do you examine changelogs in those machines? > > Are you sure it's quicker to do `ls' first to know how that > changelog is named, and after `less', that to always do `zless'?
You can use zless on non-compressed files, and you can use filename completion to get the filename. Or you can configure your lesspipe script to automatically decompress files. OTOH, I don't really mind either way, just thought I would point these things out. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5
