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diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index 784d828..4817180 100644
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ legal.
 .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
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ or decompressing.
 The
 .I gzip
 file format is specified in P. Deutsch, \s-1GZIP\s0 file format
-specification version 4.3, <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1952.txt>,
+specification version 4.3, <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt>,
 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,
-<ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1951.txt>, Internet RFC 1951 (May 1996).
+<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt>, Internet RFC 1951 (May 1996).
 
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
@@ -291,16 +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
 Test. Check the compressed file integrity.
@@ -383,20 +381,19 @@ explicit command line parameters. For example:
 On Vax/VMS, the name of the 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),
-pack(1), compact(1)
+znew(1), zcmp(1), zmore(1), zforce(1), gzexe(1), zip(1), unzip(1), compress(1)
 .PP
 The
 .I gzip
 file format is specified in P. Deutsch, \s-1GZIP\s0 file format
 specification version 4.3,
-.BR <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1952.txt> ,
+.BR <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt> ,
 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 <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1951.txt> ,
+.BR <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt> ,
 Internet RFC 1951 (May 1996).
 .SH "DIAGNOSTICS"
 Exit status is normally 0;