Merge tag 'upstream/1.5'

[debian/gzip] / gzip.1

diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index 17f94ad035ce54ec2978cb29a9e10198501a5eb4..7dbcb0283eebd5f5a87fb306f037f0c03a2201b2 100644 (file)
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -291,16 +291,15 @@ will descend into the directory and compress all the files it finds there
 ).
 .TP
 .B \-S .suf   --suffix .suf
-Use suffix .suf instead of .gz. Any suffix can be given, but suffixes
+When compressing, use suffix .suf instead of .gz.
+Any non-empty suffix can be given, but suffixes
 other than .z and .gz should be avoided to avoid confusion when files
-are transferred to other systems.  A null suffix forces gunzip to  try
-decompression on all given files regardless of suffix, as in:
+are transferred to other systems.
 
-    gunzip -S "" *       (*.* for MSDOS)
+When decompressing, add .suf to the beginning of the list of
+suffixes to try, when deriving an output file name from an input file name.
 
-Previous versions of gzip used
-the .z suffix. This was changed to avoid a conflict with
-.I pack.
+.IR pack "(1)".
 .TP
 .B \-t --test
 Test. Check the compressed file integrity.