displaying .gz files in gnome

dol-sen · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject: displaying .gz files in gnome

How can I display the doc files in /usr/share/doc/ without having to extract them somewhere first. I am using gnome2. I know the man pages are compressed the same way.

Is there a way to set it up so I just have to click on the file to view it in nautilus or a text viewer/editor?

Thanks ... Brian

inukshuk · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:34 pm Post subject:

generally you can always fall back on:

zless /path/to/README.gz

i am not using nautilus right now, but iirc you can associate a viewer with filetype *.gz, for example zless -- a click on README.gz should open up in a terminal window.

i'm sure there are better alternatives though...

dol-sen · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:49 pm Post subject: zless

Thanks, I just tried zless, that works for me.

I wonder if the gnome help system could be modified slightly to be able to browse all the /usr/share/doc/ files much like the man pages? It would come in handy.

Any thoughts?

Thanks ... Brian