debian - reading .gz files

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.
Have you tried zless filename?

          Kenny

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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