This is the file README for the gzip distribution.
-The GNU gzip home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip.
+The GNU gzip home page is https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip.
gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement
for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better
gzip is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which is
-provided under the name COPYING. The latest version of gzip are always
-available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip or in any of the gnu
+provided under the name COPYING. The latest version of gzip is always
+available from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip or in any of the GNU
mirror sites.
-- sources in gzip-*.tar (or .shar or .tar.gz).
-- MSDOS lha self-extracting exe in gzip-msdos-*.exe. Once extracted,
- copy gzip.exe to gunzip.exe and zcat.exe, or use "gzip -d" to decompress.
- gzip386.exe runs much faster but only on 386 and above; it was compiled with
- djgpp 1.10 available in directory omnigate.clarkson.edu:/pub/msdos/djgpp.
-
-A VMS executable is in ftp://ftp.spc.edu/[.macro32.savesets]gzip-1-*.zip
-(use [.macro32]unzip.exe to extract). A PRIMOS executable is available
-in ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/primos/run/gzip.run.
-
-Some ftp servers can automatically make a tar.Z from a tar file. If
-you are getting gzip for the first time, you can ask for a tar.Z file
-instead of the much larger tar file.
-
Many thanks to those who provided me with bug reports and feedback.
See the files THANKS and ChangeLog for more details.
- Note about zip vs. gzip:
+ Note about zip vs. gzip:
The name 'gzip' was a very unfortunate choice, because zip and gzip
are two really different programs, although the actual compression and
gzip and gunzip are distributed as a single program. zip and unzip
are, for historical reasons, two separate programs, although the
-authors of these two programs work closely together in the info-zip
+authors of these two programs work closely together in the Info-ZIP
team. zip and unzip are not associated with the GNU project.
-See http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ for more about zip and unzip.
+See http://info-zip.org/ for more about zip and unzip.
+
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
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-Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2018 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
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