X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4637ba6790698fdf6bb55d2661fbe60a764ff4d1;hb=ab2dee7101e75806a54d954f726bcb5b969f1ab7;hp=48373d027ee27cef7ce4e839533b7368e2caada5;hpb=ad96056bdcf62abd585cdb53768fbabdde75d1b5;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/README b/README index 48373d0..4637ba6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,25 +1,6 @@ -This is the file README for the gzip distribution, test version 1.3.5. - - Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly - - This file is part of gzip (GNU zip). - - gzip is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) - any later version. - - gzip is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, - but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the - GNU General Public License for more details. - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to - the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, - Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. +This is the file README for the gzip distribution. +The GNU gzip home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip. gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better @@ -48,15 +29,11 @@ Huffman encoder. gunzip is able to decompress .z files (packed or gzip'ed). Several planned features are not yet supported (see the file TODO). -See the file NEWS for a summary of changes since 0.5. See the file -INSTALL for installation instructions. Some answers to frequently -asked questions are given in the file INSTALL, please read it. (In -particular, please don't ask me once more for an /etc/magic entry.) - -WARNING: on several systems, compiler bugs cause gzip to fail, in -particular when optimization options are on. See the section "Special -targets" at the end of the INSTALL file for a list of known problems. -For all machines, use "make check" to check that gzip was compiled +See the file NEWS for a summary of changes since the last release. +See the file INSTALL for installation instructions. + +WARNING: gzip is sensitive to compiler bugs, particularly when +optimizing. Use "make check" to check that gzip was compiled correctly. Try compiling gzip without any optimization if you have a problem. @@ -75,14 +52,8 @@ Bug reports should ideally include: If you send me patches for machines I don't have access to, please test them very carefully. gzip is used for backups, it must be extremely reliable. -GNU tar 1.11.2 has a -z option to invoke directly gzip, so you don't have to -patch it. The package ftp.uu.net:/languages/emacs-lisp/misc/jka-compr19.el.Z -also supports gzip'ed files. - The znew and gzexe shell scripts provided with gzip benefit from -(but do not require) the cpmod utility to transfer file attributes. -It is available in -ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume11/cpmod.Z. +(but do not require) the (non-GNU) cpmod utility to transfer file attributes. The sample programs zread.c, sub.c and add.c in subdirectory sample are provided as examples of useful complements to gzip. Read the @@ -151,3 +122,17 @@ are, for historical reasons, two separate programs, although the authors of these two programs work closely together in the info-zip team. zip and unzip are not associated with the GNU project. See http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ for more about zip and unzip. + + +======================================================================== + +Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.