Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs
*- On 30 Sep, Johann Spies wrote about "Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs"
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
>> On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files
>> with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either
>> on this list or on some linux NG a while back except that I was paying
>> attention at that time!
>
> zless, zmore
>
Better yet, read /usr/doc/less/LESSOPEN.gz. With the very basic
instructions in there you can less almost any file you want: gz, bz2,
deb, tar, etc.
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Brian
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