On Tuesday, 20 December 2005 at 5:56:50 -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:22:39PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> > Ed Paris wrote:
> > > Hi There,
> > >
> > >I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and
> > >nano and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in
> > >English? Thanks.
> > >
> > >Take care,
> > >
> > >Ed
> >
> > zless
>
> Or for more features, mc.
mc is great, but the most trouble-free tool for reading gzipped man
pages etc is IMHO still lesspipe. Just put the following in your
~/.bashrc
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(lesspipe)"
and use
less whatever.gz
to read whatever. Oh, and read man lesspipe.
(It was said before in this thread, but if OP is
newbeeish, he may have missed it.)
--
richard
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