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Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?



On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 01:17, nate wrote:
> Joao Pedro Clemente said:
> >
> > AS I've seen some of these files after installing some packages, as since
> > they are not unpacked by apt-get, I am wondering if there isn't a "smart"
> > way of reading this instead of unpacking first...
> >
> > I wonder if, for instance, "less" could automatically unpack it for
> 
> I use 'zmore'
> 
> zmore README.gz
> 
> zcat should work too
> 
> wish there were such tools for .bz2 archives......

There's a way to do is using less & lesspipe.sh.  Used it back in
my Mandrake days.  That should do the trick.

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