bug with less ?

[Colin Charles]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 22:47, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Except I can't repro his issue.  I think less binary uses file magic to see 
> if the file is actually an rpm or not before passing it off to lesspipe.  
> I can less text files with ".rpm" on the end of them all day long here:

All details same as yours, I can reproduce it on Fedora PPC. less (the
package) provides /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh and if run on an rpm file, will
show the changelog as suggested by Tom
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