1 <sect2><title>Contents of Gzip</title>
3 <para>Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.</para>
5 <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
6 <para>gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, gzip,
7 uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zforce,
8 zgrep, zmore and znew</para></sect3>
10 <sect3><title>Description</title>
12 <sect4><title>gunzip, uncompress</title>
13 <para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with
16 <sect4><title>gzexe</title>
17 <para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them
18 automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in
19 performance).</para></sect4>
21 <sect4><title>gzip</title>
22 <para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using
23 Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4>
25 <sect4><title>zcat</title>
26 <para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or its
27 standard input and writes the uncompressed data on
28 standard output.</para></sect4>
30 <sect4><title>zcmp</title>
31 <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
33 <sect4><title>zdiff</title>
34 <para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
36 <sect4><title>zforce</title>
37 <para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not
38 compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated
39 after a file transfer.</para></sect4>
41 <sect4><title>zgrep</title>
42 <para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
44 <sect4><title>zmore</title>
45 <para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
46 files one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
47 more program).</para></sect4>
49 <sect4><title>znew</title>
50 <para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to
51 .gz (gzip) format.</para></sect4>