On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > have on my system are ******.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use > to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command > called "compress" with different switches to do that or to uncompress.
I like to use lynx to read the stuff in /usr/share/doc/*. It handles gzip textfiles just fine and makes it easy to navigate between files. If there is HTML documentation you can follow the hyperlinks. BTW, if you install the doc-linux-html package you get the HOWTOs in hypertext. HTH dave t. -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey
