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-[gzip] [GNU] Zip is a file compression format which the [GNU] project invented because compress(1)
was [ProprietarySoftware]. As is often the case[1], it was better than the proprietary program which it was designed to replace.
+[gzip] [GNU] Zip is a file compression format which the [GNU] project invented because Unix's compression tool '
compress'
was [ProprietarySoftware]. As is often the case[1], it was better than the proprietary program which it was designed to replace.
-See gzip(1), gunzip(1), compress
(1).
+See gzip(1), gunzip(1).
[1] fiasco (a non-proprietary reimplementation of L4, [Linux] (as opposed to [UNIX]),
