Try using mc <midnight commander> . Just select the file and hit 'F3'.
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, S. Champ wrote: > hi. > > i'm seeing a lot of README.*.gz in /usr/doc/* > > i'm guessing it's been done that way for the sake of space-conservation. > > i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about it right > now, > i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able to read > them. there's more to this life than computers, and there's already too mucy > time needing to be spent on this thing, when it's not even out of the docks > yet. > > > > > > the question: > > what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first > use > a command to un-gzip the same? > > > if there is no such command: > > 1) how to read a gzipped text-document, without un-gzipping it? > 2) these readme files are so small, why bother gzipping them and > throwing > another step into it? > > > either way: > > if keeping the document-*zip-up..document-un*zip steps in the process: > > can we try bzip instead, please? > > it's got a -keep-original-archive-file argument, under > a different syntax > than that. bzip might also have a more efficient compression-algorithm than > gzip, though i haven't done any benchmarking on it myself. > > > > > > > > -- sean > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > --
