Debian bug report logs - #1776 zless missing Package: gzip ; Reported by: eckes . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From lina.inka.de!ecki Sun Oct 29 00:06:52 1995 Return-Path: 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: Subject: Re: Bug#1776: zless missing 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^ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to eckes : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1776 ; Package gzip . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com!mitchell Sat Oct 28 21:58:02 1995 Return-Path: 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 Subject: Re: Bug#1776: zless missing 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Bill Mitchell : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1776 ; Package gzip . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk!ian Sat Oct 28 18:47:34 1995 Return-Path: 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 Subject: Re: Bug#1776: zless missing 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1776 ; Package gzip . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From elo.ods.com!david Sat Oct 28 18:38:35 1995 Return-Path: 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) Subject: Re: Bug#1776: zless missing 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to david@elo.ods.com (David Engel) : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1776 ; Package gzip . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From lina.inka.de!ecki Sat Oct 28 18:06:15 1995 Return-Path: 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: Subject: zless missing 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^ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to eckes : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1776 ; Package gzip . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov