document mingw linker fix and close associated bug

[debian/gzip] / zless.1

diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1
index ca02423126157d32b6657a56c29575b9fcce889b..7ff29e826ef199acb886366fea81c59d48222186 100644 (file)
--- 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 .
 However, enough people seem to think that having the
 command
 .I zless
 available is important to be worth providing it.
-
-Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it only works
-with files 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.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 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.
+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