On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote:
I would be happy to. Do you want to suggest some appropriate text?
Bonus points (and faster implementation) if you send me a diff against
the man page source in the current Debian gzip source package... ;-)
Attached.
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http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | Slow Pedestrian Crossing (Anon)
--- zless.old.1 2007-11-15 11:49:42.000000000 +0000
+++ zless.1 2008-04-09 16:10:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -13,20 +13,20 @@
"'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\\$%=~'",
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.
+.I Less
+now provides similar, and more flexible, functionality through the
+.I lessfile
+and
+.I lesspipe
+filters.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-zmore(1), less(1)
+zmore(1), less(1), lessfile(1), lesspipe(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.
.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
Copyright \(co 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
