gzip(1) information

Files in these directories have been compressed with the internet-standard `gzip' program, which is free of known software patents and also compresses better than `compress'. Files compressed with this method end with `.gz'.

Gzip can also uncompress files compressed with `compress' (i.e. files ending in .Z), since the uncompression algorithm is not patented.

To extract sources that are in files ending in `.tar.gz' you can use the command

gzip -d < foo.tar.gz | tar xf -
where foo.tar.gz is the name of the file.
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