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32 .Nd minimal implementation of the 'gzip' compression tool
40 utility is a minimal implementation of the
43 compression and decompression of individual files, as well as
44 streaming compression and decompression via standard input and
47 The default operation is compression, decompression can be
48 selected by supplying the
50 flag on the commandline.
54 arguments are supplied, the operation is performed on each file
55 separately. Compression replaces the original file with one having a
57 suffix. Decompression will remove a
59 suffix if one is present.
63 arguments are supplied,
65 reads from standard input and writes the results of the operation
72 utility was written by
73 .An Jean-loup Gailly .