debian - reading .gz files

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:41:37 PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello,
> On my slackware box I can read .gz files in less like this:
> less readme.debian.gz

You need something like this in /etc/profile, your .bashrc file, or your
.bash_profile file.

# give less super-pager strength.
eval "$(lessfile)"

HTH

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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