




Command:   compress, uncompress, zcat - compress a file  using  modified
                Lempel-Ziv coding
Syntax:    compress [-cdfv] [file] ...
Flags:     -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

     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 version  of
compress  uses  13-bit  compression.   This  means that when compressing
files on other systems for transmission to MINIX, be sure that only  13-
bit  compression  is  used.  On many systems, the default is 16-bit (too
big).





































                                                                        

