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- install scripts with executable bit set. - style nits (DESCR has 80 columns, make PKGNAME version agnostic, move comment about info file where it belongs, ..). Addresses PR pkg/21702 by Rob Quinn.
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GZIP (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by Jean-Loup
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Gailly <gzip@gnu.org> for the GNU project.
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This program was developed as a replacement for compress because of the UNISYS
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and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm used by compress. These patents
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made it impossible for us to use compress, and we needed a replacement. The
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superior compression ratio of GZIP is just a bonus.
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