Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do
> to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course
> uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be
> ideal. However then one encounters patches of HTML docs, which seem
> best suited for galeon, mozilla, not w3...)
Lynx will show you the text.gz without problems, and of course handle
the html. I pretty much reflexively type lynx /usr/share/doc/foo
before I even try man foo.
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