Heya, You'll want to gunzip those files, check to make sure its installed (should be a standard install on all linux machines)
gunzip README.gz Should work just fine, if its not installed apt-get install gzip Terry On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:32:41PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini babbled: > Hi! > > this is a very elemental question: how can I read a text file which is > gzipped? > Al documentation files are stored in this way... eg README.gz > > Thanks in advance for the help! > Marcelo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > //Terry Warner// :[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Senior Technical Associate : http://netlabs.net Public PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]