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23 .Nd create auto-decompressing executables
33 to compress executables, producing executables that decompress on-the-fly
35 This saves disk space, at the cost of slower execution times.
36 The original executables are saved by copying each of them to a file with
40 After verifying that the compressed executables work as expected, the backup
43 The options are as follows:
46 Decompress executables previously compressed by
52 program refuses to compress non-regular or non-executable files,
53 files with a setuid or setgid bit set, files that are already
56 or programs it needs to perform on-the-fly decompression:
70 utility replaces files by overwriting them with the generated
71 compressed executable.
72 To be able to do this, it is required that the original files are writable.