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- <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
- <para>Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.</para>
- <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</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>
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