1 .\" $NetBSD: zforce.1,v 1.2 2003/12/28 12:43:43 wiz Exp $
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3 .\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/gzip/zforce.1,v 1.2 2007/07/29 17:27:45 swildner Exp $
5 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
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24 .Nd force gzip files to have a .gz suffix
37 will not compress them twice.
38 This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer.
39 Files that have an existing
46 suffix, or that have not been compressed by
53 overwrites existing files without warning.