[63eb55cb] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[63eb55cb] | 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[087e584] | 5 | <para>(Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.)</para>
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[6370fa6] | 6 |
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[63eb55cb] | 7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect4><title>gunzip, uncompress</title>
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[9f13b5a6] | 10 | <para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with
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[bdc08c1] | 11 | gzip.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 12 |
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[bdc08c1] | 13 | <sect4><title>gzexe</title>
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[7badc47] | 14 | <para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them
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[7d90bd3] | 15 | automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in
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[bdc08c1] | 16 | performance).</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 17 |
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[bdc08c1] | 18 | <sect4><title>gzip</title>
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[b822811] | 19 | <para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using
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[bdc08c1] | 20 | Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 21 |
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[bdc08c1] | 22 | <sect4><title>zcat</title>
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[2c094d6] | 23 | <para>zcat uncompresses, and writes to standard output, either a list of files
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| 24 | on the command line or a file being read from standard input.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 25 |
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[bdc08c1] | 26 | <sect4><title>zcmp</title>
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| 27 | <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 28 |
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[bdc08c1] | 29 | <sect4><title>zdiff</title>
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| 30 | <para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 31 |
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[bdc08c1] | 32 | <sect4><title>zforce</title>
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| 33 | <para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not
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[2c094d6] | 34 | compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated
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[bdc08c1] | 35 | after a file transfer.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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[bdc08c1] | 37 | <sect4><title>zgrep</title>
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| 38 | <para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 39 |
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[bdc08c1] | 40 | <sect4><title>zmore</title>
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[b822811] | 41 | <para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
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[2c094d6] | 42 | files, one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
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[bdc08c1] | 43 | more program).</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 44 |
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[bdc08c1] | 45 | <sect4><title>znew</title>
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[b822811] | 46 | <para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to
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[bdc08c1] | 47 | .gz (gzip) format.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 49 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 50 |
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[bdc08c1] | 51 | </sect2>
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