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Description
-Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination of
-compressed and non-compressed files transparently. The supported
-compressors are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
+Zutils is a collection of utilities able to deal with any combination of
+compressed and non-compressed files transparently. If any given file,
+including standard input, is compressed, its uncompressed content is
+used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files
+are created. These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more
+efficient C++ programs. In particular the "--recursive" option is very
+efficient in those utilities supporting it.
-The currently provided utilities are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zegrep, zfgrep,
-zgrep and ztest.
+The provided utilities are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep and ztest.
+The supported compressors are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
-Copyright (C) 2009 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.
The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the
-Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that this
-file.
+Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure
+itself.