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Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*



At Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:25:25 -0700,
S. Champ wrote:
> what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first use
> a command to un-gzip the same?

Many pager software supports gzip-ed file.
less, jless, lv, ...
(But 'more' command doesn't support it)

If you want to view bzip2-ed files also, I recommend to use lv.
lv handles many character encoding also (include UTF-8/UTF-16).
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/~kmuto/



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