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@@ -1,18 +1,22 @@ 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. |