Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote: > > > I need to read information in manual.txt > > > > when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that > > resembled this was Manual.txt.gz > > > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > > .gz?? > > It is GZipped. you can unzip it with `gunzip', or use `zmore' instead of > `more', or `zless' instead of `less'. Ofcourse, these are all pagers. But > I bet there's some emacs mode to read and write gzipped files. > > `man gzip' is your friend. > > Cheers, > > Joost > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Yes, if you put (auto-compression-mode) in your .emacs file, then emacs will automatically unzip/uncompress your file into a buffer. The buffer will be compressed if you keep the .gz/.Z extension when you write it out again. However, if you drop the .gz/.Z extension on writting out, then it will not be compressed. H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
