Re: .gz ??? what, how?
> > 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.
jka-compr
Putting the following line in ~/.emacs:
(require 'jka-compr)
you can then simply edit a gzipped file and Emacs will uncompress it
automatically.
(Funny how an non-Debian specific question still generates so many
responses on this list!)
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