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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:06:07AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was looking at some of the gzip'd documentation in /usr/share/doc/exim
> today and I got to wondering...  When I want to view the documentation, I
> would always change to root, then uncompress the file, read it, and then
> re-compress it.  Am I making this too difficult?  Is there another utility
> that I should be using to browse this documentation so that I don't have to
> go through all of these steps every time?  

Yep.  Check out 'zless'.

> I am very afraid that this is
> going to be a, "Where's the any key?", type question!   :)

Nah, I wouldn't say so.  zless is only obvious *after* you know about it.
;-)

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