For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Gzip-1.3.5 in Chapter 6.
Gzip (1.3.5):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/
(Last checked against version 1.2.4a.)
The gzip package contains programs to compress and decompress files using the Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).
Gzip installs the following:
gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, gzip, uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zforce, zgrep, zmore and znew
(Last checked against version 1.2.4a.)
gunzip decompresses gzipped files.
gzexe is used to create self-uncompressing executable files.
gzip compresses the given files, using Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding.
zcat uncompresses the given gzipped files to standard output.
zcmp runs cmp on gzipped files.
zdiff runs diff on gzipped files.
zforce forces a .gz extension on all given files that are gzipped files, so that gzip will not compress them again. This can be useful when file names were truncated during a file transfer.
zgrep runs grep on gzipped files.
zless runs less on gzipped files.
zmore runs more on gzipped files.
znew recompresses files from compress format to gzip format -- .Z to .gz.
(Last checked against version 1.2.4a.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld, nm
Coreutils: cat, chmod, cp, hostname, install, ln, mv, rm, tr
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed