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

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