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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2022-07-26 05:52:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2022-07-26 05:52:47 +0000 |
| commit | 274c86b0397198011756479218dd14262d9421ff (patch) | |
| tree | 47cd5cedf3cfcbba77d127200852a21d03502e7c /README | |
| parent | Releasing debian version 1.11-5. (diff) | |
| download | zutils-274c86b0397198011756479218dd14262d9421ff.tar.xz zutils-274c86b0397198011756479218dd14262d9421ff.zip | |
Merging upstream version 1.12~pre2.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -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 +FORMAT NOTE 2: The standard POSIX compress format (.Z) is obsolete and is +only supported through gzip.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 |