Re: Enhancement request: add a -k (keep) option like bzip2

[Neil Mayhew]

I didn't see any response to my enhancement request from June (see 
below) so I've included a patch.

On 27/06/08 10:24 AM Neil Mayhew wrote:
> Sometimes it's useful to be able to keep the original file around. 
> Currently, the only way to keep the original file is either to copy 
> it, which is wasteful, or to use stdin/stdout redirection, which 
> doesn't preserve the modification time and requires the user to give 
> the output file name explicitly, which is error-prone and annoying. I 
> assume gzip does an unlink of the original file at the end, so the 
> unlink option would just request that this not be done.

keep-option.patch
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