document mingw linker fix and close associated bug

[debian/gzip] / zless.1

diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1
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--- a/zless.1
+++ b/zless.1
@@ -10,25 +10,25 @@ 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
-"'<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, 2015-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 .br
 Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
 .PP