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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 +FORMAT NOTE 2: The standard POSIX compress format (.Z) is obsolete and is +only supported through gzip.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 |