I am sorry if I sounded flippant in my earlier "enchanted computer" remark. I cannot understand why Frank's less works differently from mine, or rather why my copy of less works differently on Frank's system than it does on mine. Mine is version 354, it came as part of my Slackware 7.1 distribution which I downloaded from the website, and it does all kinds of convenient things. It shows an "ls -l" type directory listing of not only .tgz archives, but .bz2 archives as well. I even store my copies of Linux Gazette in files of this sort: "issue##.txt.gz" where '##' is the issue number, and read them by just typing "less issue##.txt.gz". It silently just unzips (okay, 'gunzips') those puppies and puts the original text content of all the items on the screen, with all the functio;nality of less immediately available. Does it work like that for anyone else? Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (95% of Full)
