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- From: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly)
- Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,gnu.announce
- Subject: gzip (GNU zip) beta release 0.5
- Message-ID: <9212231803.AA09637@octave.chorus.fr>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:03:21 GMT
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- Cc: Jean-loup Gailly <jloup@chorus.fr>
-
- gzip version 0.5 is available for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu
- [18.71.0.38], in the file /pub/gnu/gzip-0.5.tar.Z
-
- gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement
- for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are better
- compression and freedom from patented algorithms. The GNU Project
- intends to make this the standard compression program for its system.
-
- gzip currently uses by default the compression algorithm used in zip
- 1.9 (the portable pkzip compatible archiver). The gzip format was
- however designed to accomodate several compression algorithms.
- gunzip can currently decompress files in gzip 'deflate' format, zip
- format or 'compress' format. The detection of the input format is
- automatic.
-
- Please send comments or bug reports to jloup@chorus.fr.
-
- Jean-loup Gailly
- jloup@chorus.fr
-
- [ Soon to be at these ftp sites as well. Please try them
- before prep.ai.mit.edu! thanx -gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
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