Imported Upstream version 1.5

[debian/gzip] / gzip.1

diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index bdf69435c8c9ade9141b038a81e1445a82e898c0..8db327d58c82924694ba4cf0a19a501bcc89ceb7 100644 (file)
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -291,15 +291,14 @@ 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

 .IR pack "(1)".
 .TP
 .B \-t --test
 .IR pack "(1)".
 .TP
 .B \-t --test