X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gzip.1;h=bdf69435c8c9ade9141b038a81e1445a82e898c0;hb=d51dcd2b26da01604c759acf6a6e4b29d79b2da6;hp=4457856137ed1d63779aa780bac09f53839ce9d3;hpb=1a4ad4f083a12797dfcce0de74b5461a539969a2;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1 index 4457856..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 @@ -210,7 +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. @@ -290,15 +290,6 @@ will descend into the directory and compress all the files it finds there .I gunzip ). .TP -.B --rsyncable -While compressing, synchronize the output occasionally based on the input. -This increases size by less than 1 percent most cases, but means that the -.BR rsync (1) -program can much more efficiently syncronize files compressed with this flag. -.I gunzip -cannot tell the difference between a compressed file created with this option, -and one created without it. -.TP .B \-S .suf --suffix .suf Use suffix .suf instead of .gz. Any suffix can be given, but suffixes other than .z and .gz should be avoided to avoid confusion when files @@ -482,7 +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