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@@ -8,11 +8,46 @@ zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
 .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 PAGER to 
-.I less,
-and then running zmore.  However, enough people seem to think that having the
-command 
-.I zless
-available is important to be worth providing it.
+setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s',
+and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
+"'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\\$%=~'",
+and then running
+.IR less .
+.I Less
+now provides similar, and more flexible, functionality through the
+.I lessfile
+and
+.I lesspipe
+filters.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-zmore(1), less(1)
+zmore(1), less(1), lessfile(1), lesspipe(1)
+.SH "BUGS"
+.I Zless
+does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard
+input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.
+If you really want to use less in a pipe,
+then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
+Copyright \(co 2006 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.