On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> >
> > Dumb question: should all the documentation within
> > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view
> > all the documenation here without having to gunzip them first?
> >
>
> I think zless displays either gzipped and plan text files.
> So if you put an
>
> alias less="zless"
>
> into somewhere it gets executed, your less will work for both.
>
Using zless works, but you lose functionality by going
through a wrapper like that. Even better, put
eval `lessfile`
in /etc/profile or .bashrc and just plain
$ less myfile.{tar,gz,deb,...}
becomes almost magical.
John P.
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