gzip: new option --synchronous

[debian/gzip] / gzip.1

diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index 07995ea99366a1ae049e1e79168804b099734a62..3262a8788507450cb484bf2be9aeff73576cb2e1 100644 (file)
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -296,6 +296,12 @@ are transferred to other systems.
 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.
 .TP
+.B --synchronous
+Use synchronous output.  With this option,
+.I gzip
+is less likely to lose data during a system crash, but it can be
+considerably slower.
+.TP
 .B \-t --test
 Test. Check the compressed file integrity.
 .TP