[Techtalk] reading .gz files

[Cynthia Kiser]

Quoting Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>:
> Is there another way to read .gz help files, besides using zless? for example, 
> the documentation for LILO:
> 
> $ ls
> INCOMPAT.gz    README.common.problems  changelog.Debian.gz  copyright
> Manual.txt.gz  README.disk             changelog.gz         examples
> 
> It's a bit of a pain to run zless for every one- is there some kind of reader 
> that's faster and easier to use?

Might be using a big hammer to kill an ant, but you can set emacs to
automatically uncompress and recompress files when you visit them. My
Emacs book is at work so can't tell you what the incantation is for
your .emacs file.

-- 
Cynthia N. Kiser
cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu