reassign 248302 less
reassign 197456 less
thanks
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:04 +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
> I'm reassigning this bug back to gzip. The reason is explained in bug
> 248302.
The name 'zless' causes our users to expect that it works just like less
except with uncompression. The suggestion of replacing zless with
exec zcat -f "$@" | less
looks cute and simple, but it fails to meet this user expectation for
two reasons. First, less no longer has any visibility to the file
boundaries when multiple files are specified on the command line to
zless, instead less sees all the uncompressed files as if they were one
long concatenated file. Second, the options specified on the zless
command line are now being handed to zcat instead of to less.
That's not good enough.
Bdale
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