| 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Gzip</title>
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| 2 |
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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, and writes to standard output, either a list of files
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| 27 | on the command line or a file being read from standard input.</para></sect4>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect4><title>zcmp</title>
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| 30 | <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <sect4><title>zdiff</title>
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| 33 | <para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <sect4><title>zgrep</title>
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| 41 | <para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | </sect3>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | </sect2>
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