.PP
.I gunzip
takes a list of files on its command line and replaces each
-file whose name ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z, _z or .Z
+file whose name ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z, or _z (ignoring case)
and which begins with the correct magic number with an uncompressed
file without the original extension.
.I gunzip
a format recognized by
.I gzip,
and if the option --stdout is also given, copy the input data without change
-to the standard ouput: let
+to the standard output: let
.I zcat
behave as
.I cat.
).
.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
-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
for reading and writing compressed data on tapes. (This example
assumes you are using the GNU version of tar.)
.SH BUGS
-The gzip format represents the the input size modulo 2^32, so the
+The gzip format represents the input size modulo 2^32, so the
--list option reports incorrect uncompressed sizes and compression
ratios for uncompressed files 4 GB and larger. To work around this
problem, you can use the following command to discover a large