On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote:
> I need to read information in manual.txt > > when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that > resembled this was Manual.txt.gz > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the > .gz?? It is GZipped. you can unzip it with `gunzip', or use `zmore' instead of `more', or `zless' instead of `less'. Ofcourse, these are all pagers. But I bet there's some emacs mode to read and write gzipped files. `man gzip' is your friend. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .