1.\" $NetBSD: zmore.1,v 1.3 2003/12/28 12:47:52 wiz Exp $ 2.\" $OpenBSD: zmore.1,v 1.3 2003/06/23 21:00:48 deraadt Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> 5.\" 6.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 7.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 8.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 9.\" 10.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 11.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 12.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 13.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 14.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 15.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 16.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 17.\" 18.\" Sponsored in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects 19.\" Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force 20.\" Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F39502-99-1-0512. 21.\" 22.\" $FreeBSD$ 23.Dd January 26, 2007 24.Dt ZMORE 1 25.Os 26.Sh NAME 27.Nm zmore 28.Nd view compressed files on a CRT 29.Sh SYNOPSIS 30.Nm zmore 31.Op Ar flags 32.Op Ar file ... 33.Sh DESCRIPTION 34.Nm 35is a filter that allows the viewing of files compressed with Lempel-Ziv 36encoding. 37Such files generally have a 38.Dq Z 39or 40.Dq gz 41extension (both the 42.Xr compress 1 43and 44.Xr gzip 1 45formats are supported). 46Any 47.Ar flags 48that are specified are passed to the user's preferred 49.Ev PAGER 50(which is 51.Pa /usr/bin/more 52by default). 53.Pp 54When multiple files are specified, 55.Nm 56will pause at the end of each file and present the following prompt to the user: 57.Bd -literal -offset indent 58prev_file (END) - Next: next_file 59.Ed 60.Pp 61Where 62.Sy prev_file 63is the file that was just displayed and 64.Sy next_file 65is the next file to be displayed. 66The following keys are recognized at the prompt: 67.Bl -tag -width "e or q" -offset indent 68.It Ic e No or Ic q 69quit 70.Nm zmore . 71.It Ic s 72skip the next file (or exit if the next file is the last). 73.El 74.Pp 75If no files are specified, 76.Nm 77will read from the standard input. 78In this mode 79.Nm 80will assume 81.Xr gzip 1 82style compression since there is no suffix on which to make a decision. 83.Sh ENVIRONMENT 84.Bl -tag -width "PAGER" 85.It Ev PAGER 86Program used to display files. 87If unset, 88.Pa /usr/bin/more 89is used. 90.El 91.Sh SEE ALSO 92.Xr compress 1 , 93.Xr less 1 , 94.Xr more 1 95