On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Sachin Garg wrote:

> Shanker Balan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi dudes,
> > 
> > Any idea how i can use 'less' to view compressed text files like README.gz?
> 
> there is some lessrc file or less.conf or something, where u can ask
> less to call the specified gunzip or whatever before passing it to less.
> 
> sachin
> 


"gunzip -c README.gz | less" does it for me. 
 
govind



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