Re: reading documentation in .gz format?

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:09:10PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:08:01PM -0700, daniel wrote:
> > in installed sendmail from source and it put a bunch of .gz files on my
> > machine under /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.12.5/.  my question is this:  how do
> > i read the .gz files outside of using something like this:
> > 
> >   gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.12.5/README.cf.gz | less
> > 
> > there's gotta be an easier way....
> > did i miss something?
> 
> zmore /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.12.5/README.cf.gz is definitely less
> typing, if that's what you're looking for.  Conceptually, it's still
> the same.

Actually, if you open it in vi you don't have to untar it.  (At least
with most haven't tried it with the sendmail one)

HTH a little 

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