gzip

gzip - Compresses and decompresses files

A compression utility designed to replace 'compress'. Much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms are its main advantages over compress. Gzip decompresses files created by gzip, compress, or pack; it detects the input format automatically.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.gzip.org/
Source tarball	ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU/gzip/gzip-1.2.4.tar.gz

Version 1.2.4 (stable) released on 1999-02-03

Version 1.3.5 (devel) released on 2003-01-14

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html

Support contacts

Announce List	<gzip@gnu.org>
Help List	<support@gzip.org>
Bug List	<bug-gzip@gnu.org> <bug-gzip-request@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Jean-Loup Gailly <gzip@gnu.org>
Developers	Jean-Loup Gailly <gzip@gnu.org> Mark Adler <madler@cco.caltech.edu>

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Related programs	Zlib

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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