1.\" $NetBSD: zforce.1,v 1.2 2003/12/28 12:43:43 wiz Exp $ 2.\" $OpenBSD: zforce.1,v 1.1 2003/07/29 11:50:09 otto Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> 5.\" 6.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 7.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 8.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 9.\" 10.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 11.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 12.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 13.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 14.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 15.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 16.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 17.\" 18.Dd July 29, 2003 19.Dt ZFORCE 1 20.Os 21.Sh NAME 22.Nm zforce 23.Nd force gzip files to have a .gz suffix 24.Sh SYNOPSIS 25.Nm zforce 26.Ar 27.Sh DESCRIPTION 28The 29.Nm 30utility renames 31.Xr gzip 1 32files to have a 33.Sq .gz 34suffix, so that 35.Xr gzip 1 36will not compress them twice. 37This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer. 38Files that have an existing 39.Sq .gz , 40.Sq -gz , 41.Sq _gz , 42.Sq .tgz 43or 44.Sq .taz 45suffix, or that have not been compressed by 46.Xr gzip 1 , 47are ignored. 48.Sh SEE ALSO 49.Xr gzip 1 50.Sh CAVEATS 51.Nm 52overwrites existing files without warning. 53