ZLESS(1)							      ZLESS(1)



NAME
       zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text

SYNOPSIS
       zless [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Zless  is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
       files one screenful at a time on  a  soft-copy  terminal.   It  is  the
       equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to "|gzip -cdfq
       %s", and then running less.  However, enough people seem to think  that
       having  the  command zless available is important to be worth providing
       it.

       Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it  only
       works  with  files  specified  as arguments.  If you really want to use
       less in a pipe, then do the uncompress  explicitly  and	pipe  to  less
       instead of zless.

SEE ALSO
       zmore(1), less(1)



								      ZLESS(1)