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Re: still unable to get kernel source



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.
-- 
huiac@camtech.net.au
john@huiac.apana.org.au
http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services



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