debian - reading .gz files

Christopher Moore w1gm at arrl.net
Sat Aug 27 14:41:37 EDT 2005


Hello,
On my slackware box I can read .gz files in less like this:
less readme.debian.gz

When I do this on my debian sarge setup I get the compressed file. The work
around is to do something like
gzip -cd readme.debian.gz |less which unzips the file and pipes it into
less.  

Do I need to install something to get this to work without the workaround?

tia
Chris




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