Bug in gzip 1.4?

[Wieman, Karl]

Under gzip 1.4, if you specify --force, gzip will attempt to compress 'FILE.gz' 
and create 'FILE.gz.gz'.  Under previous versions, even with '-f' specified, it 
would exit with "gzip: FILE.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged" and leave 
FILE.gz unchanged.

We use -f to allow gzip to overwrite existing .gz files without prompting.

gzip version is:
/usr/local/bin/gzip-1.4 -V
gzip-1.4 1.4

It was built on Solaris 8 using gcc-3.4.6.

Thank you,

-Karl Wieman


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