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@@ -8,11 +8,16 @@ 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
+setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to "|gzip -cdfq %s",
+and then running
+.IR less .
+However, enough people seem to think that having the
 command 
 .I zless
 available is important to be worth providing it.
+
+Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it only works
+with files specified as arguments.  If you really want to use less in a pipe,
+then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of zless.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 zmore(1), less(1)