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- compress - adaptive Lempel-Zev compression program from the world of unix
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- This version has a default value of 13 bits as the size of the encoding
- can be changed to 12 by -b12 option see below.
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- usage: compress [-dfvc] [-b buts] [file ...]
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- * -d: If given, decompression is done instead.
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- * -c: Write output on stdout, don't remove original.
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- * -b: Parameter limits the max number of bits/code.
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- * -f: Forces output file to be generated, even if one already
- * exists, and even if no space is saved by compressing.
- * If -f is not used, the user will be prompted if stdin is
- * a tty, otherwise, the output file will not be overwritten.
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- * -v: Write compression statistics
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- * file ...: Files to be compressed. If none specified, stdin
- * is used.
- * Outputs:
- * file.Z: Compressed form of file with same mode, owner, and utimes
- * or stdout (if stdin used as input)
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