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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2022-07-26 05:52:14 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2022-07-26 05:52:14 +0000
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Adding upstream version 1.12~pre2.upstream/1.12_pre2
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -30,10 +30,9 @@ example, use the following command to search for the string 'foo' in
gzip and lzip files only:
'zgrep foo -r --format=gz,lz somedir somefile.tar'.
-FORMAT NOTE 2: If the option '--force-format' is given, the files are
-passed to the corresponding decompressor without verifying their format,
-allowing for example the processing of compress'd (.Z) files with gzip:
-'zcmp --force-format=gz file.Z file.lz'.
+FORMAT NOTE 2: The standard POSIX compress format (.Z) is obsolete and is
+only supported through gzip. For this to work, the gzip program used (for
+example GNU gzip) must be able to decompress .Z files.
LANGUAGE NOTE: Uncompressed = not compressed = plain data; it may never have
been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which have undergone