phpman > man > ZMORE(1)

ZMORE(1)                               General Commands Manual                              ZMORE(1)



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

SYNOPSIS
       zmore [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files one screenful at
       a time on a soft-copy terminal.  zmore 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.

       Zmore 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.

       Zmore 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 expression.   Erasing  back  past  the
              first column cancels the search command.

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

       !command
              invoke a shell with command.  The character `!' in "command" is replaced with the pre‐
              vious shell command.  The sequence "\!" is replaced 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 argument 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 (nor‐
       mally control-\).  Zmore 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.  Unfortu‐
       nately, 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)



                                                                                            ZMORE(1)