See [0] about implementations; OpenBSD even had 'gzip' aliased to?
compress. It appears that the lz77/deflate gzip is a GNUism.
Nothing bad about that - but I think although the current norm
dominates, it is only the current norm and people can shift.
[0]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip
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Tai Chi Minh Ralph Eastwood
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Received on Wed Sep 24 2014 - 14:51:01 CEST