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