1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Gzip</title>
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3 | <para>Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.</para>
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5 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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6 | <para>gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, gzip,
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7 | uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zforce,
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8 | zgrep, zmore and znew</para></sect3>
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10 | <sect3><title>Description</title>
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11 |
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12 | <sect4><title>gunzip, uncompress</title>
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13 | <para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with
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14 | gzip.</para></sect4>
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15 |
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16 | <sect4><title>gzexe</title>
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17 | <para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them
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18 | automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in
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19 | performance).</para></sect4>
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20 |
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21 | <sect4><title>gzip</title>
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22 | <para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using
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23 | Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4>
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24 |
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25 | <sect4><title>zcat</title>
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26 | <para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or its
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27 | standard input and writes the uncompressed data on
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28 | standard output.</para></sect4>
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29 |
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30 | <sect4><title>zcmp</title>
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31 | <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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32 |
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33 | <sect4><title>zdiff</title>
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34 | <para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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35 |
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36 | <sect4><title>zforce</title>
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37 | <para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not
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38 | compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated
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39 | after a file transfer.</para></sect4>
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40 |
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41 | <sect4><title>zgrep</title>
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42 | <para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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43 |
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44 | <sect4><title>zmore</title>
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45 | <para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
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46 | files one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
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47 | more program).</para></sect4>
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48 |
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49 | <sect4><title>znew</title>
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50 | <para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to
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51 | .gz (gzip) format.</para></sect4>
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52 |
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53 | </sect3>
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54 |
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55 | </sect2>
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