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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
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Trunk is now identical to Testing
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diff --git a/chapter06/gzip.xml b/chapter06/gzip.xml
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--- a/chapter06/gzip.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gzip.xml
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-gzip" xreflabel="Gzip" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-system-gzip" role="wrap">
<title>Gzip-&gzip-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="gzip.html"?>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip"><primary sortas="a-Gzip">Gzip</primary></indexterm>
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<para>The Gzip package contains programs for compressing and decompressing
+files.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -17,6 +19,11 @@
<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>2.6 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Gzip installation depends on</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
+GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
@@ -26,7 +33,10 @@
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
-<para>Issue a sed command:</para>
+<para>The <command>gzexe</command> script has the location of the
+<command>gzip</command> binary hard-wired into it. Because the
+location of the binary is changed later, the following command ensures
+that the new location gets placed into the script:</para>
<screen><userinput>sed -i 's@"BINDIR"@/bin@g' gzexe.in</userinput></screen>
@@ -51,8 +61,134 @@ ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen>
<sect2 id="contents-gzip" role="content"><title>Contents of Gzip</title>
-<para>See testing</para>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe,
+gzip, uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff,
+zegrep, zfgrep, zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore, and znew</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
+
+<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+
+<varlistentry id="gunzip">
+<term><command>gunzip</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Decompresses gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gunzip"><primary sortas="b-gunzip">gunzip</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="gzexe">
+<term><command>gzexe</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Creates self-uncompressing executable files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzexe"><primary sortas="b-gzexe">gzexe</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="gzip">
+<term><command>gzip</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Compresses the given files using Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzip"><primary sortas="b-gzip">gzip</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="uncompress">
+<term><command>uncompress</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Decompresses compressed files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip uncompress"><primary sortas="b-uncompress">uncompress</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zcat">
+<term><command>zcat</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Uncompresses the given gzipped files to standard output</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcat"><primary sortas="b-zcat">zcat</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zcmp">
+<term><command>zcmp</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcmp"><primary sortas="b-zcmp">zcmp</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zdiff">
+<term><command>zdiff</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Runs <command>diff</command> on gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zdiff"><primary sortas="b-zdiff">zdiff</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zegrep">
+<term><command>zegrep</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zegrep"><primary sortas="b-zegrep">zegrep</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zfgrep">
+<term><command>zfgrep</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zfgrep"><primary sortas="b-zfgrep">zfgrep</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zforce">
+<term><command>zforce</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Forces a <filename class="extension">.gz</filename> extension on all given files
+that are gzipped files, so that <command>gzip</command> will not compress them again; this can be
+useful when file names were truncated during a file transfer</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zforce"><primary sortas="b-zforce">zforce</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zgrep">
+<term><command>zgrep</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Runs <command>grep</command> on gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zgrep"><primary sortas="b-zgrep">zgrep</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zless">
+<term><command>zless</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Runs <command>less</command> on gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zless"><primary sortas="b-zless">zless</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="zmore">
+<term><command>zmore</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Runs <command>more</command> on gzipped files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zmore"><primary sortas="b-zmore">zmore</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="znew">
+<term><command>znew</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Re-compresses files from <command>compress</command> format to
+<command>gzip</command> format&mdash;<filename class="extension">.Z</filename>
+to <filename class="extension">.gz</filename></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip znew"><primary sortas="b-znew">znew</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
+