Re: [gentoo-newbies] reading documentation in .gz format?

[Jens Ansorg <liste ja-web de>]

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