NAME
    bzmore, bzless - file  perusal filter for crt viewing of bzip2 com-
    pressed text

SYNOPSIS
    bzmore [ name ... ]
    bzless [ name ... ]

NOTE
    In the following description, bzless and less can be used interchange-
    ably with bzmore and more.

DESCRIPTION
    Bzmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
    files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. bzmore works on
    files compressed with bzip2 and also on uncompressed files. If a file
    does not exist, bzmore looks for a file of the same name with the addi-
    tion of a .bz2 suffix.

    Bzmore 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.

    Bzmore looks in the file /etc/termcap to determine terminal character-
    istics, 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 bzmore 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 com-
    mand causes bzmore to exit.

    s   When the prompt --More--(Next file: file) is printed, this com-
    mand causes bzmore 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, bzmore 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" are
    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 charac-
    ter 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-\). Bzmore 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 bzmore acts just like
    bzcat, except that a header is printed before each file.

FILES
    /etc/termcap   Terminal data base

SEE ALSO
   more(1),less(1),bzip2(1),bzdiff(1),bzgrep(1)