[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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| 11 | <sect3><title>gunzip</title>
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| 12 |
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[b822811] | 13 | <para>gunzip decompresses files that are compressed with gzip.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 14 |
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| 15 | </sect3>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect3><title>gzexe</title>
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| 18 |
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[7badc47] | 19 | <para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them
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[7d90bd3] | 20 | automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in
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[b822811] | 21 | performance).</para>
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[6370fa6] | 22 |
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| 23 | </sect3>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect3><title>gzip</title>
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| 26 |
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[b822811] | 27 | <para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using
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| 28 | Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para>
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[6370fa6] | 29 |
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| 30 | </sect3>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <sect3><title>zcat</title>
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| 33 |
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[b822811] | 34 | <para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or its
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| 35 | standard input and writes the uncompressed data on standard output</para>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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| 37 | </sect3>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <sect3><title>zcmp</title>
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| 40 |
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[b822811] | 41 | <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 42 |
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| 43 | </sect3>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <sect3><title>zdiff</title>
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| 46 |
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[b822811] | 47 | <para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 48 |
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| 49 | </sect3>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <sect3><title>zforce</title>
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| 52 |
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[b822811] | 53 | <para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not
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[6370fa6] | 54 | compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated
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[b822811] | 55 | after a file transfer.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 56 |
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| 57 | </sect3>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <sect3><title>zgrep</title>
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| 60 |
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[b822811] | 61 | <para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 62 |
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| 63 | </sect3>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <sect3><title>zmore</title>
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| 66 |
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[b822811] | 67 | <para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
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[a9cb6f08] | 68 | files one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
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[b822811] | 69 | more program).</para>
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[6370fa6] | 70 |
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| 71 | </sect3>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <sect3><title>znew</title>
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| 74 |
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[b822811] | 75 | <para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to
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| 76 | .gz (gzip) format.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 77 |
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| 78 | </sect3>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | </sect2>
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| 81 |
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