Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-02 Thread richard lyons
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 05:41, richard lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 19:43, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from richard lyons: > > [...] > > > > ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are not read unless I 'source' > > > them manually. I've never understood why. > > > > I always wondered that to

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-02 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 19:43, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from richard lyons: [...] > > ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are not read unless I 'source' them > > manually. I've never understood why. > > I always wondered that too, but the chickens are beginning to come > home to roost. Someone expl

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-02 Thread Aaron Bingham
Hi, If you like Emacs, just add "(auto-compression-mode)" to your .emacs file. Then you can open compressed files as if they were plain text. Cheers, -- Aaron Bingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:27:26PM +0100, Mark Crean wrote: > Hi > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/01/04 19:50, Mark Crean wrote: Thanks very much. Helpful. Zless works fine and so does vim (checking, though I don't use it). Anyone know of a gui viewer as well? gvim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from richard lyons: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 17:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that > > > > > > zless > > > > Or simpl

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Mark Crean
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will > > > allow me to read them without having to decompress them first

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 17:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that > > > will allow me to read them without having to decompress them > > >

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user: > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will > > allow me to read them without having to decompress them first? > zless Or simply put "eval `/usr/bin/lessfile`" in ~

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040601 21:27]: > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? Put »eval `lesspipe`« in your ~/.bashrc, and you c

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Philippe Berini
* Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:27:26PM +0100]: > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? most -- Philippe Berini

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Scott
Mark Crean wrote: Hi Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow me to read them without having to decompress them first? zless Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004, Mark Crean wrote: > Hi > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? > I use vim Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang ba

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Daniel Teichert
And I heard Mark Crean exclaim: > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? I use zless, or you can pipe the output of zcat to anything that'll

Re: Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Carlos Hanson
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:27:26 +0100 Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow > me to read them without having to decompress them first? > > :) > > Fish

Doc viewer

2004-06-01 Thread Mark Crean
Hi Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow me to read them without having to decompress them first? :) Fish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac