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<sect2><title>Contents of Gzip</title>

<para>(Last checked against version &gzip-contversion;.)</para>

<para>The Gzip package contains programs to compress and decompress files
using the Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe,
gzip, uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zforce,
zgrep, zmore and znew</para>

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