X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gzip.1;h=bdf69435c8c9ade9141b038a81e1445a82e898c0;hb=92e2751b3644febd7b6ff49a5dd6825a3e4b993f;hp=06986eb02eb32908daa76462da612532fb3ab8ba;hpb=302189d124ed5849c2589ea92e912eb24fdc4ab3;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1 index 06986eb..bdf6943 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 @@ -121,7 +121,13 @@ Files created by .I zip can be uncompressed by gzip only if they have a single member compressed with the 'deflation' method. This feature is only intended to help -conversion of tar.zip files to the tar.gz format. To extract zip files +conversion of tar.zip files to the tar.gz format. To extract a +.I zip +file with a single member, use a command like +.I "gunzip , +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, +, Internet RFC 1951 (May 1996). .SH OPTIONS .TP @@ -194,7 +210,7 @@ is read from or written to a terminal. If the input data is not in a format recognized by .I gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given, copy the input data without change -to the standard ouput: let +to the standard output: let .I zcat behave as .I cat. @@ -457,7 +473,7 @@ GNU tar. Make sure that the same block size (-b option of tar) is used for reading and writing compressed data on tapes. (This example assumes you are using the GNU version of tar.) .SH BUGS -The gzip format represents the the input size modulo 2^32, so the +The gzip format represents the input size modulo 2^32, so the --list option reports incorrect uncompressed sizes and compression ratios for uncompressed files 4 GB and larger. To work around this problem, you can use the following command to discover a large @@ -474,7 +490,7 @@ the default compression level (-6). On some highly redundant files, compresses better than .I gzip. .SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE" -Copyright \(co 1998, 1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright \(co 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .br Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly .PP