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diff --git a/gzip.doc b/gzip.doc
index 91dbb6d..5fc3452 100644
--- a/gzip.doc
+++ b/gzip.doc
@@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ User Commands						  GZIP(1)
      Files created by 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
-     with several members, use unzip instead of	gunzip.
+     tar.zip  files  to	the tar.gz format.  To extract a zip file
+     with a single member, use a command like gunzip <foo.zip  or
+     gunzip  -S	 .zip foo.zip.	To extract zip files with several
+     members, use unzip	instead	of gunzip.
 
      zcat is identical to gunzip -c.  (On some systems,	zcat  may
      be	 installed as gzcat to preserve	the original link to com-
@@ -100,6 +102,18 @@ User Commands						  GZIP(1)
      almost  never increases.  gzip preserves the mode,	ownership
      and timestamps of files when compressing or decompressing.
 
+     The gzip file format is specified in P. Deutsch,  GZIP  file
+     format  specification  version  4.3,  <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-
+     notes/rfc1952.txt>, Internet RFC 1952 (May	1996).	 The  zip
+     deflation	format	is  specified in P. Deutsch, DEFLATE Com-
+     pressed   Data    Format	 Specification	  version    1.3,
+     <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1951.txt>,	Internet RFC 1951
+     (May 1996).
+
+SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			2
+
+User Commands						  GZIP(1)
+
 OPTIONS
      -a	--ascii
 	  Ascii	text mode: convert end-of-lines	using local  con-
@@ -109,11 +123,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	  pressing.
 
      -c	--stdout --to-stdout
-
-SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			2
-
-User Commands						  GZIP(1)
-
 	  Write	output on standard output;  keep  original  files
 	  unchanged.   If there	are several input files, the out-
 	  put consists of a sequence of	independently  compressed
@@ -157,6 +166,11 @@ User Commands						  GZIP(1)
 
 	      method: compression method
 	      crc: the 32-bit CRC of the uncompressed data
+
+SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			3
+
+User Commands						  GZIP(1)
+
 	      date & time: time	stamp for the uncompressed file
 
 	  The  compression  methods   currently	  supported   are
@@ -166,10 +180,6 @@ User Commands						  GZIP(1)
 	  With --name, the uncompressed	name,  date and	time  are
 	  those	stored within the compress file	if present.
 
-SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			3
-
-User Commands						  GZIP(1)
-
 	  With --verbose, the size totals and  compression  ratio
 	  for  all files is also displayed, unless some	sizes are
 	  unknown. With	--quiet, the title and totals  lines  are
@@ -214,6 +224,10 @@ User Commands						  GZIP(1)
 	  decompression	 on all	given files regardless of suffix,
 	  as in:
 
+SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			4
+
+User Commands						  GZIP(1)
+
 	      gunzip -S	"" *	   (*.*	for MSDOS)
 
 	  Previous versions of gzip used the .z	suffix.	This  was
@@ -222,10 +236,6 @@ User Commands						  GZIP(1)
      -t	--test
 	  Test.	Check the compressed file integrity.
 
-SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			4
-
-User Commands						  GZIP(1)
-
      -v	--verbose
 	  Verbose.  Display the	name and percentage reduction for
 	  each file compressed or decompressed.
@@ -271,6 +281,10 @@ ADVANCED USAGE
      If	you want to recompress concatenated files to  get  better
      compression, do:
 
+SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			5
+
+User Commands						  GZIP(1)
+
 	   gzip	-cd old.gz | gzip > new.gz
 
      If	a compressed file consists of several members, the uncom-
@@ -278,10 +292,6 @@ ADVANCED USAGE
      to	 the  last member only.	If you need the	uncompressed size
      for all members, you can use:
 
-SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			5
-
-User Commands						  GZIP(1)
-
 	   gzip	-cd file.gz | wc -c
 
      If	you wish to create a single archive  file  with	 multiple
@@ -327,6 +337,11 @@ DIAGNOSTICS
 
      file: Corrupt input. Use zcat to recover some data.
 	  The  compressed  file	 has been damaged. The data up to
+
+SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			6
+
+User Commands						  GZIP(1)
+
 	  the point of failure can be recovered	using
 
 		zcat file > recover
@@ -334,11 +349,6 @@ DIAGNOSTICS
      file: compressed with xx bits, can	only handle yy bits
 	  File was compressed (using LZW) by a program that could
 	  deal	with  more  bits than the decompress code on this
-
-SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			6
-
-User Commands						  GZIP(1)
-
 	  machine.  Recompress the file	 with  gzip,  which  com-
 	  presses better and uses less memory.
 
@@ -385,17 +395,16 @@ CAVEATS
      data  on tapes.  (This example assumes you	are using the GNU
      version of	tar.)
 
+SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			7
+
+User Commands						  GZIP(1)
+
 BUGS
      The gzip format represents	the 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 fol-
      lowing command to discover	a large	uncompressed file's  true
-
-SunOS 5.8		Last change: local			7
-
-User Commands						  GZIP(1)
-
      size:
 
 	   zcat	file.gz	| wc -c
@@ -408,8 +417,8 @@ User Commands						  GZIP(1)
      redundant files, compress compresses better than gzip.
 
 COPYRIGHT NOTICE
-     Copyright (C) 1998, 1999,	2001  Free  Software  Foundation,
-     Inc.
+     Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 Free	Software  Founda-
+     tion, Inc.
      Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup	Gailly
 
      Permission	is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies