[6370fa6] | 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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[b822811] | 4 | <para>The Gzip package contains the compress, gunzip, gzexe, gzip, uncompress,
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| 5 | zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zforce, zgrep, zmore and znew programs.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 6 |
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| 7 | </sect2>
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| 8 |
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| 9 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 10 |
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[9f13b5a6] | 11 | <sect3><title>gunzip, uncompress</title>
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| 12 | <para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with
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| 13 | gzip.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 14 |
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| 15 | <sect3><title>gzexe</title>
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[7badc47] | 16 | <para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them
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[7d90bd3] | 17 | automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in
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[53ad30a] | 18 | performance).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 19 |
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| 20 | <sect3><title>gzip</title>
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[b822811] | 21 | <para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using
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[53ad30a] | 22 | Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 23 |
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| 24 | <sect3><title>zcat</title>
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[b822811] | 25 | <para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or its
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[53ad30a] | 26 | standard input and writes the uncompressed data on
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| 27 | standard output</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 28 |
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| 29 | <sect3><title>zcmp</title>
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[53ad30a] | 30 | <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 31 |
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| 32 | <sect3><title>zdiff</title>
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[53ad30a] | 33 | <para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 34 |
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| 35 | <sect3><title>zforce</title>
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[b822811] | 36 | <para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not
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[6370fa6] | 37 | compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated
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[53ad30a] | 38 | after a file transfer.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 39 |
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| 40 | <sect3><title>zgrep</title>
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[53ad30a] | 41 | <para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 42 |
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| 43 | <sect3><title>zmore</title>
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[b822811] | 44 | <para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
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[a9cb6f08] | 45 | files one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
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[53ad30a] | 46 | more program).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 47 |
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| 48 | <sect3><title>znew</title>
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[b822811] | 49 | <para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to
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[53ad30a] | 50 | .gz (gzip) format.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 51 |
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| 52 | </sect2>
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| 53 |
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