one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. It is the equivalent of
setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s',
and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
-"'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\\$%=~'",
+\&'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~',
and then running
.IR less .
-.I Less
-now provides similar, and more flexible, functionality through the
-.I lessfile
-and
-.I lesspipe
-filters.
+However, enough people seem to think that having the
+command
+.I zless
+available is important to be worth providing it.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-zmore(1), less(1), lessfile(1), lesspipe(1)
+zmore(1), less(1)
.SH "BUGS"
.I Zless
does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard
input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.
-If you really want to use less in a pipe,
-then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless.
+To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use
+.RB ".\|.\|." "|gunzip|less"
+instead of
+.RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" .
.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
-Copyright \(co 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
.PP