11-20-2014
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Originally Posted by
greenmike
I use "compress" command in Linux, it does a good job.
compress is a very old-fashioned compressor which is liable to make output larger than its input under certain circumstances.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
prezip
PREZIP(1) Aspell Abbreviated User's Manual PREZIP(1)
NAME
prezip, preunzip, precat - prefix delta compressor for Aspell
SYNOPSIS
precat [-dzhLV] [-cfksSq] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
prezip is a a prefix delta compressor. It is not a general purpose compressor and should only be used on sorted word lists or other simi-
lar text files. It will likely increase the size of binary data.
If invoked as prezip, the default action is to compress. If invoked as preunzip, the default action is to decompress. If invoked as pre-
cat, the default action is to decompress to stdout.
If no file names are given then prezip will compress or decompress from the standard input to the standard output. Short flags can be com-
bined so that "-c -s" is the same as "-cs".
OPTIONS
-h --help
display help
-d --decompress
force decompression
-z --compress
dorce compression
-L --license
display software license
-V --version
display version
-c --stdout
decompress to standard output
-f --force
force
-k --keep
keep input files
-s --sort
sort and remove duplicates before compressing
-S --nocwl
do not rename .wl suffix to .cwl (use .wl.pz instead)
-q --quiet
suppress all warnings
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> based on the output of help2man. Aspell is Copyright (C) 2002 Kevin Atkin-
son.
GNU
March 2010 PREZIP(1)