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1.1       root        1: .TH GZEXE 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: gzexe \- compress executable files in place
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B gzexe
                      6: [ name ...  ]
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: The
                      9: .I  gzexe
                     10: utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them
                     11: automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a penalty
                     12: in performance).  For example if you execute ``gzexe /bin/cat'' it
                     13: will create the following two files:
                     14: .nf
                     15: .br
                     16:     -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  bin   9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
                     17:     -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin  24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~
                     18: .fi
                     19: /bin/cat~ is the original file and /bin/cat is the self-uncompressing
                     20: executable file.  You can remove /bin/cat~ once you are sure that
                     21: /bin/cat works properly.
                     22: .PP
                     23: This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
                     24: .SH OPTIONS
                     25: .TP
                     26: .B \-d
                     27: Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
                     28: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     29: gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)
                     30: .SH "BUGS"
                     31: .I gzexe 
                     32: attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed exeuctable,
                     33: but you may have to fix them manually in some cases, using
                     34: .I chmod
                     35: or
                     36: .I chown.

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