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ZLESS(1)                                                                                            ZLESS(1)



NAME
       zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text

SYNOPSIS
       zless [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Zless  is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files one screenful at a time
       on a soft-copy terminal.  It is the equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to "|gzip
       -cdfq  --  %s",  and then running less.  However, enough people seem to think that having the command
       zless available is important to be worth providing it.

SEE ALSO
       zmore(1), less(1)

BUGS
       Zless does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard  input;  it  requires  that
       input files be specified as arguments.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
       Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly

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