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+.TH ZLESS 1
+.SH NAME
+zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B zless
+[ name ... ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+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
+.BR less .
+However, enough people seem to think that having the
+command
+.B zless
+available is important to be worth providing it.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR zmore (1),
+.BR less (1)
+.SH "BUGS"
+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
+.RB ".\|.\|." "|gunzip|less"
+instead of
+.RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" .
+.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
+Copyright \(co 2006-2007, 2015-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.br
+Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
+.PP
+Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
+this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
+are preserved on all copies.
+.ig
+Permission is granted to process this file through troff and print the
+results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
+notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
+(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).
+..
+.PP
+Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
+manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
+resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
+notice identical to this one.
+.PP
+Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
+into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
+except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved
+by the Foundation.