60 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
60 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
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COMPRESS(1) Minix Programmer's Manual COMPRESS(1)
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NAME
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compress, uncompress, zcat - compress a file using modified Lempel-Ziv
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coding
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SYNOPSIS
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compress [-cdfv] [file] ...
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OPTIONS
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-c Put output on stdout instead of on file.Z
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-d Decompress instead of compress
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-f Force output even if there is no saving
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-v Verbose mode
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EXAMPLES
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compress <infile >outfile
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# Compress 1 file
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compress x y z # Compress 3 files to x.Z, y.Z, and z.Z
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compress -d file.Z # Decompress file.Z to file
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DESCRIPTION
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The listed files (or stdin, if none are given) are compressed using the
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Ziv-Lempel algorithm. If the output is smaller than the input, the
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output is put on file.Z or stdout if no files are listed. If compress is
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linked to uncompress, the latter is the same as giving the -d flag.
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Similarly, a link to zcat decompresses to stdout. The MINIX version of
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compress uses 13-bit compression. This means that when compressing files
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on other systems for transmission to MINIX, be sure that only 13-bit
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compression is used. On many systems, the default is 16-bit (too big).
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SEE ALSO
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tar(1).
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