Re: Opening .gz files with links

2001-03-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:11:44PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > why not simply install midnight commander ? This will show the zipped file > as a directory tree ... very handy You can also read them with emacs with (auto-compression-mode 1) in ~/.emacs > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

RE: Opening .gz files with links

2001-03-05 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Also try; zcat the_file_name | more John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Opening .gz files with links Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And

Re: Opening .gz files with links

2001-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd like to read manuals in .gz format without having to gunzip them, >> which is possible with lynx. Can links do this too? > >Well, I am not sure what you mean by links, links is another terminal-based web browse

RE: Opening .gz files with links

2001-03-05 Thread Joris Lambrecht
why not simply install midnight commander ? This will show the zipped file as a directory tree ... very handy -Original Message- From: Anthony Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Opening .gz files with links

Re: Opening .gz files with links

2001-03-05 Thread Anthony Fox
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to read manuals in .gz format without having to gunzip them, > which is possible with lynx. Can links do this too? Well, I am not sure what you mean by links, but you can use zless to read *.gz files without unzipping them first. In fact, there

Opening .gz files with links

2001-03-05 Thread Andre Berger
I'd like to read manuals in .gz format without having to gunzip them, which is possible with lynx. Can links do this too? -Andre