Hi. Have you tried zless filename? Kenny On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:41:37PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote: > Hello, > On my slackware box I can read .gz files in less like this: > less readme.debian.gz > > When I do this on my debian sarge setup I get the compressed file. The work > around is to do something like > gzip -cd readme.debian.gz |less which unzips the file and pipes it into > less. > > Do I need to install something to get this to work without the workaround? > > tia > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup