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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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