Re: Menu access to /usr/doc
>Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:15:01 +0200 (SAST)
>From: Johann Spies <jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za>
>To: Helmut Metzdorf <h-j-m@tap.de>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Menu access to /usr/doc
>Message-ID: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.981108131238.566A-100000@Johann>
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>On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Helmut Metzdorf wrote:
> considering myself still a novice to linux i spend lots of time
> reading documentation. first i complained about most of it beeing
> compressed text but soon i found a solution (zcat | xless).
>I am not sure whether I understand your problem properly. Maybe using a
>web browser like lynx or netscape can solve your problem. Both has the
>ability to read compressed text files and of cause the .html-files as
>well. E.g. when I call lynx, it starts up with /usr/doc as "home".
>Johann
Set up Emacs/Xemacs to read compressed files. Simple to do, and it opens
them like any other regular text file
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