Re: .gz ??? what, how?
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote:
> I need to read information in manual.txt
>
> when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that
> resembled this was Manual.txt.gz
>
> This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the
> .gz??
It is GZipped. you can unzip it with `gunzip', or use `zmore' instead of
`more', or `zless' instead of `less'. Ofcourse, these are all pagers. But
I bet there's some emacs mode to read and write gzipped files.
`man gzip' is your friend.
Cheers,
Joost
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