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Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs



first make sure you lesspipe on your system run 'which lesspipe'.  then
put "eval $(lesspipe)" in your .bash_profile or in the appropriate login
script for your shell.


On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:19:05PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> benalb@navegalia.com wrote on 05/08/2000 (03:58) :
> > add this to /etc/profile:  eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` , source it, 
> > and then  less whateveryouwant.deb. Cool, isn't it? Works with .rpm,
> > .tar.gz, .zip too. 
> 
> Doesn't work for me. Odd.
> 
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