-extension `.gz', while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
-modification times. (The default extension is `-gz' for VMS, `z' for
-MSDOS, OS/2 FAT and Atari.) If no files are specified or if a file
-name is "-", the standard input is compressed to the standard output.
-`gzip' will only attempt to compress regular files. In particular, it
-will ignore symbolic links.
-
- If the new file name is too long for its file system, `gzip'
-truncates it. `gzip' attempts to truncate only the parts of the file
-name longer than 3 characters. (A part is delimited by dots.) If the
-name consists of small parts only, the longest parts are truncated.
-For example, if file names are limited to 14 characters, gzip.msdos.exe
-is compressed to gzi.msd.exe.gz. Names are not truncated on systems
-which do not have a limit on file name length.
-
- By default, `gzip' keeps the original file name and time stamp in
-the compressed file. These are used when decompressing the file with
-the `-N' option. This is useful when the compressed file name was
-truncated or when the time stamp was not preserved after a file
-transfer. However, due to limitations in the current `gzip' file
-format, fractional seconds are discarded. Also, time stamps must fall
-within the range 1970-01-01 00:00:00 through 2106-02-07 06:28:15 UTC,
-and hosts whose operating systems use 32-bit time stamps are further
-restricted to time stamps no later than 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC. The
+extension ‘.gz’, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
+modification times. (The default extension is ‘z’ for MSDOS, OS/2 FAT
+and Atari.) If no files are specified or if a file name is ‘-’, the
+standard input is compressed to the standard output. ‘gzip’ will only
+attempt to compress regular files. In particular, it will ignore
+symbolic links.
+
+ If the new file name is too long for its file system, ‘gzip’
+truncates it. ‘gzip’ attempts to truncate only the parts of the file
+name longer than 3 characters. (A part is delimited by dots.) If the
+name consists of small parts only, the longest parts are truncated. For
+example, if file names are limited to 14 characters, gzip.msdos.exe is
+compressed to gzi.msd.exe.gz. Names are not truncated on systems which
+do not have a limit on file name length.
+
+ By default, ‘gzip’ keeps the original file name in the compressed
+file. This can be useful when decompressing the file with ‘-N’ if the
+compressed file name was truncated after a file transfer.
+
+ If the original is a regular file, ‘gzip’ by default keeps its
+timestamp in the compressed file. This can be useful when decompressing
+the file with ‘-N’ if the timestamp was not preserved after a file
+transfer. However, due to limitations in the current ‘gzip’ file
+format, fractional seconds are discarded. Also, timestamps must fall
+within the range 1970-01-01 00:00:01 through 2106-02-07 06:28:15 UTC,
+and hosts whose operating systems use 32-bit timestamps are further
+restricted to timestamps no later than 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC. The