*- On 30 Sep, Johann Spies wrote about "Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs" > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > >> On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files >> with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either >> on this list or on some linux NG a while back except that I was paying >> attention at that time! > > zless, zmore >
Better yet, read /usr/doc/less/LESSOPEN.gz. With the very basic instructions in there you can less almost any file you want: gz, bz2, deb, tar, etc. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
