.TH ZLESS 1 .SH NAME zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text .SH SYNOPSIS .B zless [ name ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I 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 .IR less . However, enough people seem to think that having the command .I zless available is important to be worth providing it. .SH "SEE ALSO" zmore(1), less(1)