On Tuesday 01 June 2004 17:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that > > > will allow me to read them without having to decompress them > > > first? > > > > zless > > Or simply put "eval `/usr/bin/lessfile`" in ~/.bashrc and less will > be able to read .gz files just fine (and a lot of others too).
That's very neat. What a nice little tool. But, on my system, ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are not read unless I 'source' them manually. I've never understood why. And how strange. On my laptop (originally a Mepis install) the init files _are_ read, but I get an error when I open an XTerm: -bash: eval export LESSOPEN="/usr/bin/lessfile %s"; export LESSCLOSE="/usr/bin/lessfile %s %s";: No such file or directory Package 'less' is installed, so I wonder why that is. Perhaps I should touch it? If so, I'd expect the postinstall to have done it. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
