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Re: reading HOWTO files



On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote:

> I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. 
> However, I cannot access the HOWTO files.  They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are
> gz.  How can I read them?  Thank you.

If you've installed less, the 'zless' command will view compressed files.
Otherwise, 'zcat file.gz | more' will also work.  If you have the less
from hamm installed, the lesspipe program provides a way to get less to
view compressed files without intervention.


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