.B zless
[ name ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.I Zless
+The
+.B zless
+command
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 the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
\&'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~',
and then running
-.IR less .
+.BR less .
However, enough people seem to think that having the
command
-.I zless
+.B zless
available is important to be worth providing it.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
zmore(1), less(1)
.SH "BUGS"
-.I Zless
+The
+.B zless
+command
does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard
input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.
To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use
instead of
.RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" .
.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
-Copyright \(co 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 2006-2007, 2015-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
.PP