Debian bug report logs - #1776 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1776: zless missing Reply-To: eckes , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: eckes Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:18:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:18:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:07:23 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t9MCU-000DieC; Sat, 28 Oct 95 18:06 PDT Received: from sapa.inka.de by pixar.com with SMTP id AA07389 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 28 Oct 1995 18:05:42 -0700 Received: from uu.inka.de (root@[193.197.84.8]) by sapa.inka.de with smtp (S3.1.29.1) id ; Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:05 MET Received: from lina.inka.de (ecki@lina.inka.de) by uu.inka.de with bsmtp (S3.1.29.1) id ; Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:05 MET Received: from ecki@lina.inka.de (sendmail) (S3.1.29.1) id ; Sun, 29 Oct 95 02:05 MET Message-Id: To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:05:28 +0100 (MET) From: eckes Organisation: private Linux Site, Karlsruhe, Germany X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 483 Package: gzip I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of zless is: --- #!/bin/sh for args do zcat $args | less done --- Greetings Bernd __ Bernd Eckenfels ++49 7257 3817 | 1024/E010B09D ______If privacy is outlawed ecki@lina.inka.de Karlsruhe | *plush* __/ only Outlaws have privacy ecki@lina.ka.sub.org eckes@irc |__inux_____/ http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ G21! d? H@ s+ p0 au+ a- w+ v c+++ UL++++$ P E? N++ t+ e* u@ h++! f !n y* Y^ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: eckes Subject: Bug#1776: Acknowledgement (was: zless missing) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1776: zless missing Reply-To: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel) Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:48:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:48:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:40:11 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t9Mhm-000DCQC; Sat, 28 Oct 95 18:38 PDT Received: from elo.ods.com ([192.94.73.20]) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08760 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 28 Oct 1995 18:38:04 -0700 Received: by elo.ods.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Sat, 28 Oct 95 20:35 CDT Message-Id: From: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel) To: ecki@lina.inka.de Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 20:35:28 -0500 (CDT) Cc: debian-bugs@Pixar.com In-Reply-To: from "eckes" at Oct 29, 95 02:05:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 541 > Package: gzip > > I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of > zless is: Just set your PAGER environment variable to 'less' and use zmore. Is anyone else getting tired of seeing this question asked every week or so? Perhaps the gzip package maintainer should just add a zless script which does this and be done with it. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. david@ods.com 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel) Subject: Bug#1776: Info received (was Bug#1776: zless missing) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1776: zless missing Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:03:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:03:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:48:36 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t9MqU-000DDQC; Sat, 28 Oct 95 18:47 PDT Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08898 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 28 Oct 1995 18:47:02 -0700 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0t9MqE-0007uQC; Sun, 29 Oct 95 01:47 GMT Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0t9MqA-0002bdC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Sun, 29 Oct 95 01:47 GMT Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Oct 95 01:47 GMT From: Ian Jackson To: eckes , debian-bugs@Pixar.com ecki@lina.inka.de writes ("Bug#1776: zless missing"): > Package: gzip > > I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of > zless is: > > --- > #!/bin/sh > for args > do > zcat $args | less > done > --- This is a bad implementation. A better one would be: #!/bin/sh - PAGER=less export PAGER exec zmore "$@" We've had this request twice now - can we put this script in /usr/bin/zless ? Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1776: Info received (was Bug#1776: zless missing) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1776" or "Re: Bug#1776" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1776: zless missing Reply-To: Bill Mitchell , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Bill Mitchell Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 05:03:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 05:03:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 04:59:08 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t9Poo-000DY9C; Sat, 28 Oct 95 21:58 PDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA19626 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 28 Oct 1995 21:57:33 -0700 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.7.1/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id XAA04531; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 23:57:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com [138.242.72.29]) by pobox.mot.com (8.7.1/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id XAA23632; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 23:57:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from mitchell@localhost) by bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id VAA19059; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 21:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 21:57:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Mitchell X-Sender: mitchell@bb29c To: eckes , debian-bugs@Pixar.com In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, eckes wrote: > Package: gzip > > I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of > zless is: > > --- > #!/bin/sh > for args > do > zcat $args | less > done Someone else (Ian J?) pointed out earlier that zmore uses whatever file pager is specified by the PAGER environment variable. export PAGER=less # in ~/.bash_profile, or other setup file zmore file1 file2 file3 # this will use less, not more ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Bill Mitchell Subject: Bug#1776: Info received (was Bug#1776: zless missing) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1776: zless missing Reply-To: eckes , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: eckes Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 07:18:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 07:18:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 07:07:54 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t9RpU-0002C7C; Sun, 29 Oct 95 00:06 PDT Received: from sapa.inka.de by pixar.com with SMTP id AA26636 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sun, 29 Oct 1995 00:06:24 -0700 Received: from uu.inka.de (root@[193.197.84.8]) by sapa.inka.de with smtp (S3.1.29.1) id ; Sun, 29 Oct 95 08:06 MET Received: from lina.inka.de (ecki@lina.inka.de) by uu.inka.de with bsmtp (S3.1.29.1) id ; Sun, 29 Oct 95 08:06 MET Received: from ecki@lina.inka.de (sendmail) (S3.1.29.1) id ; Sun, 29 Oct 95 08:06 MET Message-Id: To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 08:06:14 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: From: eckes Organisation: private Linux Site, Karlsruhe, Germany X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 761 Hello, > Someone else (Ian J?) pointed out earlier that zmore uses whatever > file pager is specified by the PAGER environment variable. of course, but i am used to type zless instead of zmore. The same way i am used to type less and not more. Especially on an GNU System I expect zless as i expect less. I dont think we should require millions of ppl to include an alias into their .xxxx_profile if they want the usual behaviour. Greetings Bernd __ Bernd Eckenfels ++49 7257 3817 | 1024/E010B09D ______If privacy is outlawed ecki@lina.inka.de Karlsruhe | *plush* __/ only Outlaws have privacy ecki@lina.ka.sub.org eckes@irc |__inux_____/ http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ G21! d? H@ s+ p0 au+ a- w+ v c+++ UL++++$ P E? N++ t+ e* u@ h++! f !n y* Y^ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: eckes Subject: Bug#1776: Info received (was Bug#1776: zless missing) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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