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ZMORE(1)		     General Commands Manual			ZMORE(1)

NAME
     zmore - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text

SYNOPSIS
     zmore [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
     The  zmore  command  is  a filter which allows examination of compressed or
     plain text files one screenful at a time  on  a  soft-copy  terminal.   The
     zmore  command  works  on files compressed with compress, pack or gzip, and
     also on uncompressed files.  If a file does not exist, zmore  looks  for  a
     file of the same name with the addition of a .gz, .z or .Z suffix.

     The  zmore  command normally pauses after each screenful, printing --More--
     at the bottom of the screen.  If the user then types a carriage return, one
     more line is displayed.  If the user hits a  space,  another  screenful  is
     displayed.  Other possibilities are enumerated later.

     The  zmore  command  looks  in  the file /etc/termcap to determine terminal
     characteristics, and to determine the default window size.  On  a	terminal
     capable  of  displaying  24 lines, the default window size is 22 lines.  To
     use a pager other than the default more, set environment variable PAGER  to
     the name of the desired program, such as less.

     Other  sequences  which  may be typed when zmore pauses, and their effects,
     are as follows (i is an optional integer argument, defaulting to 1) :

     i<space>
	    display i more lines, (or another screenful if no argument is given)

     ^D     display 11 more lines (a ``scroll'').   If	i  is  given,  then  the
	    scroll size is set to i.

     d	    same as ^D (control-D)

     iz     same  as  typing  a space except that i, if present, becomes the new
	    window size.

     is     skip i lines and print a screenful of lines

     if     skip i screenfuls and print a screenful of lines

     q or Q Quit.

     =	    Display the current line number.

     i/expr search for the i-th occurrence of the regular expression expr.   The
	    user's erase and kill characters may be used to edit the regular ex-
	    pression.	Erasing  back  past  the first column cancels the search
	    command.

     in     search for the i-th occurrence of the last	regular  expression  en-
	    tered.

     !command
	    invoke  a shell with command.  The character `!' in "command" is re-
	    placed with the previous shell command.  The sequence  "\!"  is  re-
	    placed by "!".

     :q or :Q
	    Quit (same as q or Q).

     .	    (dot) repeat the previous command.

     The  commands  take effect immediately, i.e., it is not necessary to type a
     carriage return.  Up to the time  when  the  command  character  itself  is
     given, the user may hit the line kill character to cancel the numerical ar-
     gument  being formed.  In addition, the user may hit the erase character to
     redisplay the --More-- message.

     At any time when output is being sent to the terminal, the user can hit the
     quit key (normally control-\).  The zmore command will stop sending output,
     and will display the usual --More-- prompt.  The user may then enter one of
     the above commands in the normal manner.	Unfortunately,	some  output  is
     lost  when this is done, due to the fact that any characters waiting in the
     terminal's output queue are flushed when the quit signal occurs.

     The terminal is set to noecho mode by this program so that the  output  can
     be  continuous.   What you type will thus not show on your terminal, except
     for the / and !  commands.

     If the standard output is not a teletype, then zmore acts just  like  zcat,
     except  that a header is printed before each file if there is more than one
     file.

FILES
     /etc/termcap
	    Terminal data base

SEE ALSO
     more(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zgrep(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzexe(1)

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