Application Name: gzip

Current version: 1.2.4a

Last modified on Apr 28 2004

gzip - compression utility gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. The GNU Project uses it as the standard compression program for its system.

Man pages:
gunzip
gzexe
gzip
zcat
zcmp
zdiff
zforce
zgrep
zmore
znew

Docs and manuals:
manual