gzip

file compressor/uncompressor and utils

Contributed by

John R. MacMillan

Obtained from

FSF

Restrictions

GNU Copyleft

Description

Gzip is a file compressor, like compress, but uses a better compression algorithm. Gunzip will uncompress not only gziped files, but also several other formats (compress, pack). Also has several handy utilities, one of which allows you to keep infrequently used binaries compressed, and still run them

Productivity

Better compression, compressed binaries save disk space

Safety

Used it for a month

Work Planned

None

Documentation

Manual pages. The gzip package actually includes the following runable programs, all of which have manual pages: gzip gunzip gzcat gzexe zcmp zdiff zforce zgrep zmore znew

Verification

"make test"