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@@ -22,17 +22,21 @@ NOTE: Bzip2 and lzip provide well-defined values of exit status, which
makes them safe to use with zutils. Gzip and xz may return ambiguous
warning values, making them less reliable back ends for zutils.
-FORMAT NOTE: If the "--format" option is given, the corresponding files
-are passed to the decompressor without verifying their format, allowing
-for example the processing of compress'd (.Z) files with gzip:
-"zcmp --format=gz file.Z file.lz".
+FORMAT NOTE: The "--format" option allows the processing of a subset of
+formats in search and recursive modes:
+"zgrep foo -r --format=bz2,lz somedir".
+
+FORMAT NOTE 2: If the "--force-format" option 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".
LANGUAGE NOTE: Uncompressed = not compressed = plain data; it may never
have been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which has
undergone the process of decompression.
-Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.