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.
(I copy this to the nautilus mailing list, they are currently discussing UI :))
that's really an issue, even more if you use Gnome2/Nautilus to browse documentation:
If you're lucky you have File-Roller installed:Duble-click a document, file-roller opens, doubleclick the file in the file-roller window and another window opens that finally contains the unzipped document to read it. Interestingly this is again a nautilus window containing a text view to display the document. Wouldn't it be possible somehow to skip or hide the file-roller part to just open the document in the text view? (Ahem, probably no because there might be more than one file in a zip)
Now, if you do not have a graphical Zip utility installed in Gnome then you are out of luck and need to go to command line to deal with the zipped file as described above
Not a very satisfying solution Jens Ansorg