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1*5a645f22SBen Gras.\"	$NetBSD: zforce.1,v 1.2 2003/12/28 12:43:43 wiz Exp $
2*5a645f22SBen Gras.\"	$OpenBSD: zforce.1,v 1.1 2003/07/29 11:50:09 otto Exp $
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4*5a645f22SBen Gras.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
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18*5a645f22SBen Gras.Dd July 29, 2003
19*5a645f22SBen Gras.Dt ZFORCE 1
20*5a645f22SBen Gras.Os
21*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sh NAME
22*5a645f22SBen Gras.Nm zforce
23*5a645f22SBen Gras.Nd force gzip files to have a .gz suffix
24*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sh SYNOPSIS
25*5a645f22SBen Gras.Nm zforce
26*5a645f22SBen Gras.Ar
27*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sh DESCRIPTION
28*5a645f22SBen GrasThe
29*5a645f22SBen Gras.Nm
30*5a645f22SBen Grasutility renames
31*5a645f22SBen Gras.Xr gzip 1
32*5a645f22SBen Grasfiles to have a
33*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sq .gz
34*5a645f22SBen Grassuffix, so that
35*5a645f22SBen Gras.Xr gzip 1
36*5a645f22SBen Graswill not compress them twice.
37*5a645f22SBen GrasThis can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer.
38*5a645f22SBen GrasFiles that have an existing
39*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sq .gz ,
40*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sq -gz ,
41*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sq _gz ,
42*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sq .tgz
43*5a645f22SBen Grasor
44*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sq .taz
45*5a645f22SBen Grassuffix, or that have not been compressed by
46*5a645f22SBen Gras.Xr gzip 1 ,
47*5a645f22SBen Grasare ignored.
48*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sh SEE ALSO
49*5a645f22SBen Gras.Xr gzip 1
50*5a645f22SBen Gras.Sh CAVEATS
51*5a645f22SBen Gras.Nm
52*5a645f22SBen Grasoverwrites existing files without warning.
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