On 26/06/00 15:53 +0530, Shanker Balan spewed into the LI bitstream:
>
>Hi dudes,
>
>Any idea how i can use 'less' to view compressed text files like README.gz?
>
$ gzcat foo.txt.gz|less
If a binary (such as a few DOS readmes / fortunes.db etc), then try
$ strings readme.exe.gz|less
hth
-suresh
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