X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gzip.1;fp=gzip.1;h=8db327d58c82924694ba4cf0a19a501bcc89ceb7;hb=dc84183747ce1703eb99685b5dbde1f65a143c06;hp=bdf69435c8c9ade9141b038a81e1445a82e898c0;hpb=a2016c1de6e4884f6c8ed5cc498f3bf821c25ca4;p=debian%2Fgzip

diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index bdf6943..8db327d 100644
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -291,15 +291,14 @@ will descend into the directory and compress all the files it finds there
 ).
 .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