You could always 'zcat file.gz | less'. That's probably what SuSe was doing for you. I seem to remember you can set up a less .rc or something that can process input for less automagically. Check out less' man page.
--P On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:51:02 +0100 > From: Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Less and .gz files > Resent-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:58:56 -0500 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi > > On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. Can i > get less to do it also on Debian? > > cheers, > Raffaele > -- > Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net" > ID: 0xEC4950E9 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >