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Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*



On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:29:28PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:25:25 -0700,
> S. Champ wrote:
> > what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first use
> > a command to un-gzip the same?
> 
> Many pager software supports gzip-ed file.
> less, jless, lv, ...
> (But 'more' command doesn't support it)

Personally, If it's a small file, I've always just used zmore or zless.

> 
> If you want to view bzip2-ed files also, I recommend to use lv.
> lv handles many character encoding also (include UTF-8/UTF-16).
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> Kenshi Muto
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