NAME
compress, uncompress, zcat - compress a file using modified
Lempel-Ziv coding
SYNOPSIS
compress [-cdfv] [file] ...
OPTIONS
-c Put output on stdout instead of on file.Z
-d Decompress instead of compress
-f Force output even if there is no saving
-v Verbose mode
EXAMPLES
compress <infile >outfile
# Compress 1 file
compress x y z # Compress 3 files to x.Z, y.Z, and z.Z
compress -d file.Z # Decompress file.Z to file
DESCRIPTION
The listed files (or stdin, if none are given) are
compressed using the Ziv-Lempel algorithm. If the output is
smaller than the input, the output is put on file.Z or
stdout if no files are listed. If compress is linked to
uncompress, the latter is the same as giving the -d flag.
Similarly, a link to zcat decompresses to stdout. The MINIX
3 version of compress uses 13-bit compression. This means
that when compressing files on other systems for transmis-
sion to MINIX 3, be sure that only 13-bit compression is
used. On many systems, the default is 16-bit (too big).
SEE ALSO
tar(1).