X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=algorithm.doc;h=1091169c9b67f5f3abd85be1dbb38e27f4cff40c;hb=92249085071a973e2c0621b0415b93d2e48bb00d;hp=c8c3a92190ff0e0af0d5bb354d2c4ffe153b5be7;hpb=4ee107046a0ffd91f6c60c787326a5e27b799f6d;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/algorithm.doc b/algorithm.doc index c8c3a92..1091169 100644 --- a/algorithm.doc +++ b/algorithm.doc @@ -97,10 +97,10 @@ input size or the available size on the output media. If input does not come from a regular disk file, the file modification time is set to the time at which compression started. -The time stamp is useful mainly when one gzip file is transferred over +The timestamp is useful mainly when one gzip file is transferred over a network. In this case it would not help to keep ownership attributes. In the local case, the ownership attributes are preserved -by gzip when compressing/decompressing the file. A time stamp of zero +by gzip when compressing/decompressing the file. A timestamp of zero is ignored. Bit 0 in the flags is only an optional indication, which can be set by @@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ Compression", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 23, No. 3, May 1977, pp. 337-343. [RFC1952] Deutsch P., "GZIP file format specification version 4.3", -Internet RFC 1952, May 1996, . +Internet RFC 1952, May 1996, . APPNOTE.TXT documentation file in PKZIP 1.93a (October 1991). This version no longer seems to be available online; the latest version is -in . +in .