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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.36.
-.TH ZCAT "1" "October 2009" "Zcat 0.5" "User Commands"
+.TH ZCAT "1" "October 2009" "Zcat 0.6" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
-Zcat \- manual page for Zcat 0.5
+Zcat \- concatenate compressed files to stdout
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B zcat
[\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fICAT_OPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILES\fR]
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ concatenation of any combination of compressed and non\-compressed files.
If any given file is compressed, its uncompressed content is used. If a
given file does not exist, zcat tries the compressed file names
corresponding to the supported compressors. If no files are specified,
-the standard input is decompressed using the selected compressor and
-sent to stdout.
+data is read from standard input, decompressed if needed, and sent to
+stdout. Data read from standard input must be of the same type; all
+uncompressed or all compressed with the same compressor.
The supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip and xz.
.PP
CAT_OPTIONS are passed directly to cat.
@@ -26,18 +27,6 @@ display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
-.TP
-\fB\-\-gzip\fR
-use gzip as decompressor for stdin (default)
-.TP
-\fB\-\-bzip2\fR
-use bzip2 as decompressor for stdin
-.TP
-\fB\-\-lzip\fR
-use lzip as decompressor for stdin
-.TP
-\fB\-\-xz\fR
-use xz as decompressor for stdin
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to zutils\-bug@nongnu.org
Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html