X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gzip.1;fp=gzip.1;h=6594b7553f1984dcd0c4d5fd5d887398726e892e;hb=a8a88eddaa90432e6ec1b8d9d5c9842bc91afd1d;hp=e6aa278cd2282fd8c4e22d2eee35437f45e5e833;hpb=20fcfc81ece044b8b0a6768ec6cf47be4e22a2e6;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1 index e6aa278..6594b75 100644 --- a/gzip.1 +++ b/gzip.1 @@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ each file is replaced by one with the extension .BR "\&.gz" , while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times. (The default extension is -.B "\-gz" -for VMS, .B "z" for MSDOS, OS/2 FAT, Windows NT FAT and Atari.) If no files are specified, or if a file name is "-", the standard input is @@ -58,7 +56,7 @@ keeps the original file name and timestamp in the compressed file. These are used when decompressing the file with the .B \-N option. This is useful when the compressed file name was truncated or -when the time stamp was not preserved after a file transfer. +when the timestamp was not preserved after a file transfer. .PP Compressed files can be restored to their original form using .I gzip -d @@ -240,7 +238,7 @@ displayed: method: compression method crc: the 32-bit CRC of the uncompressed data - date & time: time stamp for the uncompressed file + date & time: timestamp for the uncompressed file The compression methods currently supported are deflate, compress, lzh (SCO compress -H) and pack. The crc is given as ffffffff for a file @@ -259,20 +257,20 @@ Display the license and quit. .TP .B \-n --no-name -When compressing, do not save the original file name and time stamp by +When compressing, do not save the original file name and timestamp by default. (The original name is always saved if the name had to be truncated.) When decompressing, do not restore the original file name if present (remove only the .I gzip suffix from the compressed file name) and do not restore the original -time stamp if present (copy it from the compressed file). This option +timestamp if present (copy it from the compressed file). This option is the default when decompressing. .TP .B \-N --name -When compressing, always save the original file name and time stamp; this +When compressing, always save the original file name and timestamp; this is the default. When decompressing, restore the original file name and -time stamp if present. This option is useful on systems which have -a limit on file name length or when the time stamp has been lost after +timestamp if present. This option is useful on systems which have +a limit on file name length or when the timestamp has been lost after a file transfer. .TP .B \-q --quiet @@ -403,9 +401,6 @@ containing the following: #! /bin/sh export PATH=/usr/bin exec gzip \-9 "$@" - -On VMS, the name of the obsolescent environment variable is GZIP_OPT, to -avoid a conflict with the symbol set for invocation of the program. .SH "SEE ALSO" znew(1), zcmp(1), zmore(1), zforce(1), gzexe(1), zip(1), unzip(1), compress(1) .PP @@ -413,13 +408,13 @@ The .I gzip file format is specified in P. Deutsch, \s-1GZIP\s0 file format specification version 4.3, -.BR , +.BR , Internet RFC 1952 (May 1996). The .I zip deflation format is specified in P. Deutsch, \s-1DEFLATE\s0 Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3, -.BR , +.BR , Internet RFC 1951 (May 1996). .SH "DIAGNOSTICS" Exit status is normally 0; @@ -504,7 +499,7 @@ the default compression level (-6). On some highly redundant files, compresses better than .IR gzip . .SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE" -Copyright \(co 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2012, 2015-2016 Free Software Foundation, +Copyright \(co 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2012, 2015-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .br Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly