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