.TH ZLESS 1
.SH NAME
zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B zless
[ name ...  ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.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 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.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
zmore(1), less(1)