NAME

zgz - Frankenstein's compressor

SYNOPSIS

zgz [options] < file > file.gz

DESCRIPTION

This program is an unholy combination of the BSD gzip program, a modified GNU gzip that supports setting an arbitrary file name and timestamp, and an old, rotting version of bzip2 that we dug up somewhere at midnight. Only the bits to do with file compression were kept.

There are many arcane options which aid pristine-gz(1) in re-animating files. Use --help to see all the gory details.

AUTHOR

Matthew R. Green, Jean-loup Gailly, Julian R Seward, Faidon Liambotis, Josh Triplett, Joey Hess

Note that several of the above donors would be very surprised at finding parts of themselves ... er, their work ... shambling around here. Please direct correspondence and/or flaming pitchforks to the pristine-tar maintainers.