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        The GZIP software and related files have been included

         in this report as a convenience to users and does not 

          imply endorsement by or represent opinions of the 

                             U.S. Government.

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Directory   /GZIP  A_README.1ST  file:



   This subdirectory contains the GZIP program executables and related

files.  The files in this subdirectory, except this "A_README.1ST"

file, came from the Internet ftp archive on:



ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu



Source code for GZIP is available from the above ftp archive.



Files:



GUNZIP.EXE   -- MS-DOS executable program GZIP, version 1.2.4, used to

                uncompress files with the ".GZ" extension



GZIP386.EXE  -- GZIP executable for 80386 systems



COPYING      -- Software license to accompany GZIP program



GZIP.DOC     -- Documentation for GZIP program



README       -- General README for the gzip distribution, version 1.2.4



README.DOS   -- README file for the DOS version of GZIP



A_README.1ST -- This file


