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+Current Version: 1.2.4.
+See the file ChangeLog for the details of all changes.
+
+Major changes from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4
+* By default, do not restore file name and timestamp from those saved
+ inside the .gz file (behave as 'compress'). Added the --name option
+ to force name and timestamp restoration.
+* Accept - as synonym for stdin.
+* Use manlinks=so or ln to support either hard links or .so in man pages
+* Accept foo.gz~ in zdiff.
+* Added support for Windows NT
+* Handle ENAMETOOLONG for strict Posix systems
+* Use --recursive instead of --recurse to comply with Webster and
+ the GNU stdandard.
+* Allow installation of shell scripts with a g prefix: make G=g install
+* Install by default zcat as gzcat if gzcat already exists in path.
+* Let zmore behave as more when invoked without parameters (give help)
+* Let gzip --list reject files not in gzip format even with --force.
+* Don't complain about non gzip files for options -rt or -rl.
+* Added advice in INSTALL for several systems.
+
+Major changes from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3
+* Don't display the output name when decompressing except with --verbose.
+* Remove usage of alloca in getopt.c and all makefiles.
+* Added the zfile shell script in subdirectory sample.
+* Moved the list of compiler bugs from README to INSTALL.
+* Added vms/Readme.vms.
+
+Major changes from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
+* Fix a compilation error on Sun with cc (worked with gcc).
+
+Major changes from 1.2 to 1.2.1
+* Let zmore act as more if the data is not gzipped.
+* made gzexe more secure (don't rely on PATH).
+* By default, display output name only when the name was actually truncated.
+
+Major changes from 1.1.2 to 1.2
+* Added the --list option to display the file characteristics.
+* Added the --no-name option: do not save or restore original filename
+ Save the original name by default.
+* Allow gunzip --suffix "" to attempt decompression on any file
+ regardless of its extension if an original name is present.
+* Add support for the SCO compress -H format.
+* gzip --fast now compresses faster (speed close to that of compress)
+ with degraded compression ratio (but still better than compress).
+ Default level changed to -6 (acts exactly as previous level -5) to
+ be a better indication of its placement in the speed/ratio range.
+* Use smart name truncation: 123456789012.c -> 123456789.c.gz
+ instead of 12345678901.gz
+* With --force, let zcat pass non gzip'ed data unchanged (zcat == cat)
+* Added the zgrep shell script.
+* Made sub.c useful for 16 bit sound, 24 bit images, etc..
+* Supress warnings about suffix for gunzip -r, except with --verbose.
+* On MSDOS, use .gz extension when possible (files without extension)
+* Moved the sample programs to a subdirectory sample.
+* Added a "Special targets" section in INSTALL.
+
+Major changes from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2.
+* Fix serious bug for VMS (-gz not removed when decompressing).
+* Allow suffix other than .gz in znew.
+* Do not display compression ratio when decompressing stdin.
+* In zmore.in, work around brain damaged stty -g (Ultrix).
+* Display a correct compression ratio for .Z files.
+* Added .z to .gz renaming script in INTALL.
+* Allow setting CFLAGS in configure.
+
+Major changes from 1.1 to 1.1.1.
+* Fix serious bug in vms.c (affects Vax/VMS only).
+* Added --ascii option.
+* Add workaround in configure.in for Ultrix (quote eval argument)
+
+Major changes from 1.0.7 to 1.1.
+* Use .gz suffix by default, add --suffix option.
+* Let gunzip accept a "_z" suffix (used by one 'compress' on Vax/VMS).
+* Quit when reading garbage from stdin instead of reporting an error.
+* Added makefile for VAX/MMS and support for wildcards on VMS.
+* Added support for MSC under OS/2.
+* Added support for Prime/PRIMOS.
+* Display compression ratio also when decompressing (with --verbose).
+* Quit after --version (GNU standard)
+* Use --force to bypass isatty() check
+* Continue processing other files in case of recoverable error.
+* Added comparison of zip and gzip in the readme file.
+* Added small sample programs (ztouch, sub, add)
+* Use less memory when compiled with -DSMALL_MEM (for MSDOS).
+* Remove the "off by more than one minute" time stamp kludge
+
+Major changes from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7.
+* Allow zmore to read from standard input (like more).
+* Support the 68000 (Atari ST) in match.S.
+* Retry partial writes (required on Linux when gzip is suspended in a pipe).
+* Allow full pathnames and renamings in gzexe.
+* Don't let gzexe compress setuid executables or gzip itself.
+* Added vms/Makefile.gcc for gcc on the Vax.
+* Allow installation of binaries and shell scripts in different dirs.
+* Allows complex PAGER variable in zmore (e.g.: PAGER="col -x | more")
+* Allow installation of zcat as gzcat.
+* Several small changes for portability to old or weird systems.
+* Suppress help message and send compressed data to the terminal when
+ gzip is invoked without parameters and without redirection.
+* Add compile option GNU_STANDARD to respect the GNU coding standards:
+ with -DGNU_STANDARD, behave as gzip even if invoked under the name gunzip.
+(I don't like the last two changes, which were requested by the FSF.)
+
+Major changes from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6.
+* Let gzexe detect executables that are already gzexe'd.
+* Keep file attributes in znew and gzexe if cpmod is available.
+* Don't try restoring record format on VMS (1.0.5 did not work correctly)
+* Added asm version for 68000 in amiga/match.a.
+ Use asm version for Atari TT and NeXT.
+* For OS/2, assume HPFS by default, add flag OS2FAT if necessary.
+* Fixed some bugs in zdiff and define zcmp as a link to zdiff.
+
+
+Major changes from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
+* For VMS, restore the file type for variable record format, otherwise
+ extract in fixed length format (not perfect, but better than
+ forcing all files to be in stream_LF format).
+* For VMS, use "-z" default suffix and accept a version number in file names.
+* For Unix, allow compression of files with name ending in 'z'. Use only
+ .z, .*-z, .tgz, .taz as valid gzip extensions. In the last two cases,
+ extract to .tar by default.
+* On some versions of MSDOS, files with a 3 character extension could not
+ be compressed.
+* Garbage collect files in /tmp created by gzexe.
+* Fix the 'OS code' byte in the gzip header.
+* For the Amiga, add the missing utime.h and add support for gcc.
+
+
+Major changes from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4.
+* Added optimized asm version for 68020.
+* Add support for DJGPP.
+
+* Add support for the Atari ST.
+* Added zforce to rename gzip'ed files with truncated names.
+* Do not install with name uncompress (some systems rely on the
+ absence of any check in the old uncompress).
+* Added missing function (fcfree) in msdos/tailor.c
+* Let gunzip handle .tgz files, and let gzip skip them.
+* Added -d option (decompress) for gzexe and try preserving file permissions.
+* Suppress all warnings with -q.
+* Use GZIP_OPT for VMS to avoid conflict with program name.
+* ... and many other small changes (see ChangeLog)
+
+
+Major changes from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3
+* Added -K option for znew to keep old .Z files if smaller
+* Added -q option (quiet) to cancel -v in GZIP env variable.
+* Made gzexe safer on systems with filename limitation to 14 chars.
+* Fixed bugs in handling of GZIP env variable and incorrect free with Turbo C.
+
+
+Major changes from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
+* Added env variable GZIP for default options. Example:
+ for sh: GZIP="-8 -v"; export GZIP
+ for csh: setenv GZIP "-8 -v"
+* Added support for the Amiga.
+* znew now keeps the old .Z if it is smaller than the .z file.
+ This can happen for some large and very redundant files.
+* Do not complain about trailing garbage for record oriented IO (Vax/VMS).
+ This implies however that multi-part gzip files are not supported
+ on such systems.
+* Added gzexe to compress rarely used executables.
+* Reduce memory usage (required for MSDOS and useful on all systems).
+* Preserve time stamp in znew -P (pipe option) if touch -r works.
+
+
+Major changes from 1.0 to 1.0.1
+* fix trivial errors in the Borland makefile (msdos/Makefile.bor)
+
+
+Major changes from 0.8.2 to 1.0
+* gzip now runs on Vax/VMS
+* gzip will not not overwrite files without -f when using /bin/sh in
+ background.
+* Support the test option -t for compressed (.Z) files.
+ Allow some data recovery for bad .Z files.
+* Added makefiles for MSDOS (Only tested for MSC, not Borland).
+* still more changes to configure for several systems
+
+
+Major changes from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2:
+* yet more changes to configure for Linux and other systems
+* Allow zcat on a file with multiple links.
+
+
+Major changes from 0.8 to 0.8.1:
+* znew has now a pipe option -P to reduce the disk space requirements,
+ but this option does not preserve timestamps.
+* Fixed some #if directives for compilation with TurboC.
+
+
+Major changes from 0.7 to 0.8:
+* gzip can now extract .z files created by 'pack'.
+* configure should no longer believe that every machine is a 386
+* Fix the entry for /etc/magic in INSTALL.
+* Add patch for GNU tar 1.11.1 and a pointer to crypt++.el
+* Uncompress files with multiple links only with -f.
+* Fix for uncompress of .Z files on 16-bit machines
+* Create a correct output name for file names of exactly N-1 chars when
+ the system has a limit of N chars.
+
+
+Major changes from 0.6 to 0.7:
+* Use "make check" instead of "make test".
+* Keep time stamp and pass options to gzip in znew.
+* Do not create .z.z files with gzip -r.
+* Allow again gunzip .zip files (was working in 0.5)
+* Allow again compilation with TurboC 2.0 (was working in 0.4)
+
+
+Major changes form 0.5 to 0.6:
+* gunzip reported an error when extracting certain .z files. The .z files
+ produced by gzip 0.5 are correct and can be read by gunzip 0.6.
+* gunzip now supports multiple compressed members within a single .z file.
+* Fix the check for i386 in configure.
+* Added "make test" to check for compiler bugs. (gcc -finline-functions
+ is broken at least on the NeXT.)
+* Use environment variable PAGER in zmore if it is defined.
+* Accept gzcat in addition to zcat for people having /usr/bin before
+ /usr/local/bin in their path.
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