On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 the mental interface of Robert Vangel told: > Mike M wrote: > > >2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz? > > > > I used: > > # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/ > > # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz > > # vi NEWS.Debian > > > > It worked but it seems there should be some sort of tool. > > > > Whenever I have things like that, I use > > gzip -dc <file>|less > > Would be good if there was a gzless which automatically does it, or > `less --gzip <file>' or something similar. just prompt: less /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz works perfect with vim as the less pager: alias less='$VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.sh'
HANN Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-) Friedrich Nietzsche
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