Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, d wrote:
>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.
I use zless, however you could use
gzip -dc <foo>.gz|less
>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
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