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  capa-
       ble of displaying 24 lines, the default window size is 22 lines.

       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.  Note that  the  window  size  reverts  back  to  the
	      default at the end of the current file.

       is     skip i lines and print a screenful of lines

       if     skip i screenfuls and print a screenful of lines

       q or Q quit reading the current file; go on to the next (if any)

       e or q When the prompt --More--(Next file: file) is printed, this command causes zmore to exit.

       s      When the prompt --More--(Next file: file) is printed, this command causes zmore to skip the next file and continue.

       =      Display the current line number.

       i/expr search  for  the	i-th  occurrence  of the regular expression expr.  If the pattern is not found, zmore goes on to the next file (if
	      any).  Otherwise, a screenful is displayed, starting two lines before the place where the expression was found.	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 previous shell command.  The sequence "!" is
	      replaced by "!".

       :q or :Q
	      quit reading the current file; go on to the next (if any) (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 (normally 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.  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 sig-
       nal 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 termi-
       nal, 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.

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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