RE: Opening .gz files with links
Also try;
zcat the_file_name | more
John
-----Original Message-----
From: cjw44@flatline.org.uk [mailto:cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:54 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Opening .gz files with links
Anthony Fox <ant@lonelyroad.org> wrote:
>Andre Berger <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de> writes:
>> I'd like to read manuals in .gz format without having to gunzip them,
>> which is possible with lynx. Can links do this too?
>
>Well, I am not sure what you mean by links,
links is another terminal-based web browser. Try it. It indeed doesn't
seem to automatically gunzip .gz files as lynx can, though.
>but you can use zless to read *.gz files without unzipping them first.
Not so useful for .html.gz files, though ...
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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