--- lesspipe.sh.orig	2006-12-17 21:35:53.000000000 -0600
+++ lesspipe.sh	2006-12-17 21:38:09.000000000 -0600
@@ -49,10 +49,14 @@
   *.1.gz|*.2.gz|*.3.gz|*.4.gz|*.5.gz|*.6.gz|*.7.gz|*.8.gz|*.9.gz|*.n.gz|*.man.gz) # compressed *roff src?
     if gzip -dc "$1" | file - | grep roff 1> /dev/null ; then
       gzip -dc "$1" | nroff -S -mandoc -
+    else
+      gzip -dc "$1" 2>/dev/null
     fi ;;
   *.1.bz2|*.2.bz2|*.3.bz2|*.4.bz2|*.5.bz2|*.6.bz2|*.7.bz2|*.8.bz2|*.9.bz2|*.n.bz2|*.man.bz2) # compressed *roff src?
     if bzip2 -dc "$1" | file - | grep roff 1> /dev/null ; then
       bzip2 -dc "$1" | nroff -S -mandoc -
+    else
+      bzip2 -dc "$1" 2>/dev/null
     fi ;;
   *.gz) gzip -dc "$1"  2>/dev/null ;;
   *.bz2) bzip2 -dc "$1" 2>/dev/null ;;