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compress - adaptive Lempel-Zev compression program from the world of unix
This version has a default value of 13 bits as the size of the encoding
can be changed to 12 by -b12 option see below.
usage: compress [-dfvc] [-b buts] [file ...]
* -d: If given, decompression is done instead.
*
* -c: Write output on stdout, don't remove original.
*
* -b: Parameter limits the max number of bits/code.
*
* -f: Forces output file to be generated, even if one already
* exists, and even if no space is saved by compressing.
* If -f is not used, the user will be prompted if stdin is
* a tty, otherwise, the output file will not be overwritten.
*
* -v: Write compression statistics
*
* file ...: Files to be compressed. If none specified, stdin
* is used.
* Outputs:
* file.Z: Compressed form of file with same mode, owner, and utimes
* or stdout (if stdin used as input)