-This is the file README for the gzip distribution, test version 1.3.5.
-
- Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
-
- This file is part of gzip (GNU zip).
-
- gzip is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- gzip is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+This is the file README for the gzip distribution.
+The GNU gzip home page is http://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
or gzip'ed).
Several planned features are not yet supported (see the file TODO).
-See the file NEWS for a summary of changes since 0.5. See the file
-INSTALL for installation instructions. Some answers to frequently
-asked questions are given in the file INSTALL, please read it. (In
-particular, please don't ask me once more for an /etc/magic entry.)
-
-WARNING: on several systems, compiler bugs cause gzip to fail, in
-particular when optimization options are on. See the section "Special
-targets" at the end of the INSTALL file for a list of known problems.
-For all machines, use "make check" to check that gzip was compiled
+See the file NEWS for a summary of changes since the last release.
+See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
+
+WARNING: gzip is sensitive to compiler bugs, particularly when
+optimizing. Use "make check" to check that gzip was compiled
correctly. Try compiling gzip without any optimization if you have a
problem.
If you send me patches for machines I don't have access to, please test them
very carefully. gzip is used for backups, it must be extremely reliable.
-GNU tar 1.11.2 has a -z option to invoke directly gzip, so you don't have to
-patch it. The package ftp.uu.net:/languages/emacs-lisp/misc/jka-compr19.el.Z
-also supports gzip'ed files.
-
The znew and gzexe shell scripts provided with gzip benefit from
-(but do not require) the cpmod utility to transfer file attributes.
-It is available in
-ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume11/cpmod.Z.
+(but do not require) the (non-GNU) cpmod utility to transfer file attributes.
The sample programs zread.c, sub.c and add.c in subdirectory sample
are provided as examples of useful complements to gzip. Read the
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.
+
+
+========================================================================
+
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
+
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
+Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
+Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
+Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.
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