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1.1     ! root        1: Current Version: 1.0.5
        !             2: See the file ChangeLog for the details of all changes.
        !             3: 
        !             4: User visible changes from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
        !             5: 
        !             6: o For VMS, restore the file type for variable record format, otherwise
        !             7:     extract in fixed length format (not perfect, but better than
        !             8:     forcing all files to be in stream_LF format).
        !             9: 
        !            10: o For VMS, use "-z" default suffix and accept a version number in file names.
        !            11: 
        !            12: o For Unix, allow compression of files with name ending in 'z'. Use only
        !            13:   .z, .*-z, .tgz, .taz as valid gzip extensions. In the last two cases,
        !            14:   extract to .tar by default.
        !            15: 
        !            16: o On some versions of MSDOS, files with a 3 character extension could not
        !            17:   be compressed.
        !            18: 
        !            19: o Garbage collect files in /tmp created by gzexe.
        !            20: 
        !            21: o Fix the 'OS code' byte in the gzip header.
        !            22: 
        !            23: o For the Amiga, add the missing utime.h and add support for gcc.
        !            24: 
        !            25: 
        !            26: User visible changes from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4.
        !            27: 
        !            28: o Added optimized asm version for 68020.
        !            29: 
        !            30: o Add support for DJGPP.
        !            31:        
        !            32: o Add support for the Atari ST.
        !            33: 
        !            34: o Added zforce to rename gzip'ed files with truncated names.
        !            35: 
        !            36: o Do not install with name uncompress (some systems rely on the
        !            37:   absence of any check in the old uncompress).
        !            38: 
        !            39: o Added missing function (fcfree) in msdos/tailor.c
        !            40: 
        !            41: o Let gunzip handle .tgz files, and let gzip skip them.
        !            42: 
        !            43: o Added -d option (decompress) for gzexe and try preserving file permissions.
        !            44: 
        !            45: o Suppress all warnings with -q.
        !            46: 
        !            47: o Use GZIP_OPT for VMS to avoid conflict with program name.
        !            48: 
        !            49: o ... and many other small changes (see ChangeLog)
        !            50: 
        !            51: 
        !            52: User visible changes from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3
        !            53: 
        !            54: o Added -K option for znew to keep old .Z files if smaller
        !            55: 
        !            56: o Added -q option (quiet) to cancel -v in GZIP env variable.
        !            57: 
        !            58: o Made gzexe safer on systems with filename limitation to 14 chars.
        !            59: 
        !            60: o Fixed bugs in handling of GZIP env variable and incorrect free with Turbo C.
        !            61: 
        !            62: 
        !            63: User visible changes from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
        !            64: 
        !            65: o Added env variable GZIP for default options. Example:
        !            66:    for sh:   GZIP="-8 -v"; export GZIP
        !            67:    for csh:  setenv GZIP "-8 -v"
        !            68: 
        !            69: o Added support for the Amiga.
        !            70: 
        !            71: O znew now keeps the old .Z if it is smaller than the .z file.
        !            72:   This can happen for some large and very redundant files.
        !            73: 
        !            74: o Do not complain about trailing garbage for record oriented IO (Vax/VMS).
        !            75:   This implies however that multi-part gzip files are not supported
        !            76:   on such systems.
        !            77: 
        !            78: o Added gzexe to compress rarely used executables.
        !            79: 
        !            80: o Reduce memory usage (required for MSDOS and useful on all systems).
        !            81: 
        !            82: o Preserve time stamp in znew -P (pipe option) if touch -r works.
        !            83: 
        !            84: 
        !            85: User visible changes from 1.0 to 1.0.1
        !            86: 
        !            87: o fix trivial errors in the Borland makefile (msdos/Makefile.bor)
        !            88: 
        !            89: 
        !            90: User visible changes from 0.8.2 to 1.0
        !            91: 
        !            92: o gzip now runs on Vax/VMS
        !            93: 
        !            94: o gzip will not not overwrite files without -f when using /bin/sh in
        !            95:   background.
        !            96: 
        !            97: o Support the test option -t for compressed (.Z) files.
        !            98:   Allow some data recovery for bad .Z files.
        !            99: 
        !           100: o Added makefiles for MSDOS (Only tested for MSC, not Borland).
        !           101: 
        !           102: o still more changes to configure for several systems
        !           103: 
        !           104: 
        !           105: User visible changes from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2:
        !           106: 
        !           107: o yet more changes to configure for Linux and other systems
        !           108: 
        !           109: o Allow zcat on a file with multiple links.
        !           110: 
        !           111: 
        !           112: User visible changes from 0.8 to 0.8.1:
        !           113: 
        !           114: o znew has now a pipe option -P to reduce the disk space requirements,
        !           115:   but this option does not preserve timestamps.
        !           116: 
        !           117: o Fixed some #if directives for compilation with TurboC.
        !           118: 
        !           119: 
        !           120: User visible changes from 0.7 to 0.8:
        !           121: 
        !           122: o gzip can now extract .z files created by 'pack'.
        !           123: 
        !           124: o configure should no longer believe that every machine is a 386
        !           125: 
        !           126: o Fix the entry for /etc/magic in INSTALL.
        !           127: 
        !           128: o Add patch for GNU tar 1.11.1 and a pointer to crypt++.el
        !           129: 
        !           130: o Uncompress files with multiple links only with -f.
        !           131: 
        !           132: o Fix for uncompress of .Z files on 16-bit machines
        !           133: 
        !           134: o Create a correct output name for file names of exactly N-1 chars when
        !           135:   the system has a limit of N chars.
        !           136: 
        !           137: 
        !           138: User visible changes from 0.6 to 0.7:
        !           139: 
        !           140: o Use "make check" instead of "make test".
        !           141: 
        !           142: o Keep time stamp and pass options to gzip in znew.
        !           143: 
        !           144: o Do not create .z.z files with gzip -r.
        !           145: 
        !           146: o Allow again gunzip .zip files (was working in 0.5)
        !           147: 
        !           148: o Allow again compilation with TurboC 2.0 (was working in 0.4)
        !           149: 
        !           150: 
        !           151: User visible changes form 0.5 to 0.6:
        !           152: 
        !           153: o gunzip reported an error when extracting certain .z files. The .z files
        !           154:   produced by gzip 0.5 are correct and can be read by gunzip 0.6.
        !           155: 
        !           156: o gunzip now supports multiple compressed members within a single .z file.
        !           157: 
        !           158: o Fix the check for i386 in configure.
        !           159: 
        !           160: o Added "make test" to check for compiler bugs. (gcc -finline-functions
        !           161:   is broken at least on the NeXT.)
        !           162: 
        !           163: o Use environment variable PAGER in zmore if it is defined.
        !           164: 
        !           165: o Accept gzcat in addition to zcat for people having /usr/bin before
        !           166:   /usr/local/bin in their path.

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