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<sect2><title>Contents of Gzip</title>
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<para>Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.</para>
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<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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<para>gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, gzip,
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uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zforce,
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zgrep, zmore and znew</para></sect3>
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<sect3><title>Description</title>
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<sect4><title>gunzip, uncompress</title>
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<para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with
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gzip.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><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></sect4>
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<sect4><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></sect4>
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<sect4><title>zcat</title>
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<para>zcat uncompresses, and writes to standard output, either a list of files
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on the command line or a file being read from standard input.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>zcmp</title>
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<para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>zdiff</title>
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<para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><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></sect4>
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<sect4><title>zgrep</title>
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<para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><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></sect4>
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<sect4><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></sect4>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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