Re: zless?

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:22:20 +0100,
Bernd S. Brentrup wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:15:36PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:19, Douglas F. Calvert wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >  I did not find a definitive answer to my question by scanning
> > > debian-policy/* but I may have missed something. Is it a problem that
> > > zless is installed in /bin but requires less which is installed in /usr
> > > and is not an essential package or a dependancy of gzip?	
> > 
> > The best idea might be to merge zless with zmore, or use the same script
> > (except with a default $PAGER of less instead of more). Personally I'd
> > want zless to start $PAGER anyway.
> 
> Partially seconded but call it zpager then.

"lv" checks file suffix.  If a file has ".gz" or ".bz2", then lv
automatically extract it.

Regards,
-- gotom