SYNOPSIS

       breed [options] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       breed  prepares files for viewing by reed. Although the most common use
       is viewing compressed files (.gz, .bz2, etc),  it  also  supports  many
       other  file formats. It can only take one filename as a parameter, how-
       ever.

       breed has some advantages over  other  generic  viewer  programs  (like
       lessfile  or  zmore)  because  it  can tell Reed the "real" filename so
       bookmarks act correctly.

OPTIONS

       Breed  has  the  same  options  as  Reed.  In  addition,  if  you  have
       /usr/bin/fold  installed, Breed can word wrap text automatically, using
       the -w parameter.

USAGE

       breed supports all command line options reed  does,  although  it  only
       allows one filename.

FILES

       .html, .htm, .shtml
              Uses  Lynx.  breed  is  also  capable  of using Lynx to download
              remote files, for example
              breed http://www.sacredchao.net/software/reed/

       .bz2, .bz, .gz, .z
              Uses bunzip2, bunzip, and gunzip, respectively. Uncompresses the
              file  and  displays it. Note that the behaviour is different for
              .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files.

       .tar, .tar.gz (.tgz), .tar.bz2 (.tb2), .tar.z
              Displays a listing of files in the archive.

       .arj, .zip (.jar), .lha, .lhz
              Display a listing of the files in the archive.  Requires  unarj,
              unzip, and lha respectively.

       .rpm, .deb
              Display information about the package. Requires rpm and dpkg.

       .pdf, .ps, .doc
              Display  an  approximation  of the document. Requires pdftotext,
              ps2ascii, and catdoc, respectively.

       .pdb   View a Palm DOC file. Requires doctotext, from the  Pyrite  Pub-
              lisher package.

       .gpg   Decrypt a file and display the contents. Requires gpg.