Re: mutt alternates command

[Mike M <no-linux-support@earthlink.net>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:53:05AM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:39:24AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote:
> > Mike M wrote:
> > >2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz?
> > >   I used:
> > >   # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/
> > >   # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz
> > >   # vi NEWS.Debian
> > >
> > >   It worked but it seems there should be some sort of tool.
> > Whenever I have things like that, I use
> > gzip -dc <file>|less
> > Would be good if there was a gzless which automatically does it, or 
> > `less --gzip <file>' or something similar.
> 
> It's called zless and is installed by gzip.

That worked.
> 
> It's just a shell script which uses LESSOPEN.