Merge tag 'upstream/1.5'

[debian/gzip] / gzip.1

diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index 17f94ad035ce54ec2978cb29a9e10198501a5eb4..7dbcb0283eebd5f5a87fb306f037f0c03a2201b2 100644 (file)
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -291,16 +291,15 @@ will descend into the directory and compress all the files it finds there
 ).
 .TP
 .B \-S .suf   --suffix .suf
 ).
 .TP
 .B \-S .suf   --suffix .suf

-Use suffix .suf instead of .gz. Any suffix can be given, but suffixes
+When compressing, use suffix .suf instead of .gz.
+Any non-empty suffix can be given, but suffixes

 other than .z and .gz should be avoided to avoid confusion when files
 other than .z and .gz should be avoided to avoid confusion when files

-are transferred to other systems.  A null suffix forces gunzip to  try
-decompression on all given files regardless of suffix, as in:
+are transferred to other systems.

 
 

-    gunzip -S "" *       (*.* for MSDOS)
+When decompressing, add .suf to the beginning of the list of
+suffixes to try, when deriving an output file name from an input file name.

 
 

-Previous versions of gzip used
-the .z suffix. This was changed to avoid a conflict with
-.I pack.
+.IR pack "(1)".

 .TP
 .B \-t --test
 Test. Check the compressed file integrity.
 .TP
 .B \-t --test
 Test. Check the compressed file integrity.