3 zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
11 is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files
12 one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. It is the equivalent of
13 setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s',
14 and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
15 \&'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~',
18 However, enough people seem to think that having the
21 available is important to be worth providing it.
28 does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard
29 input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.
30 To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use
31 .RB ".\|.\|." "|gunzip|less"
33 .RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" .
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