At Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:22:26 +1100,
Bill Taylor wrote:
> cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular 
> readme's are .gz .does that make a difference?

> they seem to be binaries or produce symbols instead of letters with 
> cat,less or more,ended up locked up again. the 3 cd set is 2.2r5, the 
> README files are in usr/share/doc/xserver-common after a default install

in your .bash_profile, put the lines:
 export PAGER=less
 eval $(lesspipe)

this sets your default pager to less, and sets up less to
automatically view various types of files (including compressed ones).

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 - Gus
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