NAME

zforce − force a ’z’ extension on all gzip files

SYNOPSIS

zforce [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

zforce forces a z extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not compress them twice.  This can be useful for files with names truncated after a file transfer.  On systems with a 14 char limitation on file names, the original name is truncated to make room for the .z suffix. For example, 12345678901234 is renamed to 123456789012.z. A file name such as foo.tgz is left intact. 

SEE ALSO

gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), gzexe(1)

BUGS

File names of exactly 13 characters are first truncated to 12 characters even on file systems not limited to 14 characters. 

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