X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=zless.1;fp=zless.1;h=6bf667af007ebd21a6e78788323979bf4e86bb41;hb=c7e61475680fa226bd9b8bdd469cd66914e630f5;hp=28ca8393af185d604d9544903e2d73b4e611aab8;hpb=800deb09b422a73c1212233a93839a223ff59678;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1 index 28ca839..6bf667a 100644 --- a/zless.1 +++ b/zless.1 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files 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 -';*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~', +\&';*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~', and then running .IR less . However, enough people seem to think that having the @@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ zmore(1), less(1) .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. +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