<sect2><title>Contents of Gzip</title> <para>Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.</para> <sect3><title>Program Files</title> <para>gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, gzip, uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zforce, zgrep, zmore and znew</para></sect3> <sect3><title>Description</title> <sect4><title>gunzip, uncompress</title> <para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with gzip.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>gzexe</title> <para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in performance).</para></sect4> <sect4><title>gzip</title> <para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zcat</title> <para>zcat uncompresses, and writes to standard output, either a list of files on the command line or a file being read from standard input.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zcmp</title> <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zdiff</title> <para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zforce</title> <para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated after a file transfer.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zgrep</title> <para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zmore</title> <para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files, one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the more program).</para></sect4> <sect4><title>znew</title> <para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to .gz (gzip) format.</para></sect4> </sect3> </sect2>