Bug#1776: zless missing

1995-10-29 Thread eckes
Hello, > Someone else (Ian J?) pointed out earlier that zmore uses whatever > file pager is specified by the PAGER environment variable. of course, but i am used to type zless instead of zmore. The same way i am used to type less and not more. Especially on an GNU System I expect zless as i expec

Bug#1776: zless missing

1995-10-29 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, eckes wrote: > Package: gzip > > I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of > zless is: > > --- > #!/bin/sh > for args > do > zcat $args | less > done Someone else (Ian J?) pointed out earlier that zmore uses whatever file pager is specified

Bug#1776: zless missing

1995-10-28 Thread Ian Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Bug#1776: zless missing"): > Package: gzip > > I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of > zless is: > > --- > #!/bin/sh > for args > do > zcat $args | less > done > --- This is a bad impl

Bug#1776: zless missing

1995-10-28 Thread David Engel
> Package: gzip > > I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of > zless is: Just set your PAGER environment variable to 'less' and use zmore. Is anyone else getting tired of seeing this question asked every week or so? Perhaps the gzip package maintainer should just a

Bug#1776: zless missing

1995-10-28 Thread eckes
Package: gzip I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of zless is: --- #!/bin/sh for args do zcat $args | less done --- Greetings Bernd __ Bernd Eckenfels ++49 7257 3817 | 1024/E010B09D __If privacy is outlawed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karlsruhe | *plush* __