From 768f4e35a931c68e46e645130e7666b7c3ac35db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:21:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * zless.1: Fix some troff typos mentioned in the latest Debian patch. Also, give a workaround for the pipe problem. --- ChangeLog | 3 +++ zless.1 | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0b6d2c3..47100d4 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2007-06-13 Paul Eggert + * zless.1: Fix some troff typos mentioned in the latest Debian patch. + Also, give a workaround for the pipe problem. + * gzip.c (copy_stat): Adjust to gnulib's renaming of futimens to gl_futimens. 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 -- 2.47.2