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diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1
index 844f5d5..bae5aa1 100644
--- a/zless.1
+++ b/zless.1
@@ -15,5 +15,9 @@ 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)