Imported Debian patch 1.3.12-3

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@@ -8,16 +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 LESSOPEN to "|gzip -cdfq %s",
+setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s',
+and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
+"'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\\$%=~'",
 and then running
 .IR less .
 However, enough people seem to think that having the
-command 
+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.
+then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 zmore(1), less(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.
+.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.