debian - reading .gz files

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Chris,
Your Slackware box had an environment variable that cleverly caused less 
to use gunzip if it had to, before paging through the file. I cannot 
recall what that variable looked like, but if you still have your 
Slackware distro, try slogging through the lengthy man page on less to 
see how that worked. You can probably duplicate that trick on Debian.

Welcome to Debian, by the way.

Chuck


On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:41:37PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> 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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