Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

[d <odak@stic.net>]

LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files?  All of the ones I 
have on my system are ******.gz, I know that means compressed.  What to use 
to uncompress?  When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command 
called "compress" with different switches to do that or to uncompress.

As usual one for the road, if those that are NOT a user nor a programmer 
would put in the "Subject" some thing like what I have installed would help 
MOA find the ones with the 'HOLD MY HAND' instructions and save me and I am 
sure many others much time searching for thingys that could be useful to me/us.

TIA,
d
Don Hodges
San Antonio, Texas