.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)