Michael Kahle wrote: > > 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? Yes because it is possible to read gzipped texts with less. Put "eval $(lessfile)" or "eval $(lesspipe)" in your .bash_profile or some similar file and you can read those texts. See also /usr/share/doc/less/LESSOPEN -- Thomas Weinbrenner
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