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author | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2023-06-15 11:58:35 +0000 |
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committer | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2023-06-15 11:59:16 +0000 |
commit | 2178f35dffdc0d0129ad1da2e34ba243d7869378 (patch) | |
tree | dd82300ea48009d0b7a3b1d587a1ac2e0fd61c49 /doc/gpg.texi | |
parent | gpgsm: New option --input-size-hint. (diff) | |
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gpg: New option --no-compress as alias for -z0.
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diff --git a/doc/gpg.texi b/doc/gpg.texi index 61f047cc7..15b3243d0 100644 --- a/doc/gpg.texi +++ b/doc/gpg.texi @@ -1675,24 +1675,29 @@ prevent the creation of a @file{~/.gnupg} homedir. @item -z @var{n} @itemx --compress-level @var{n} @itemx --bzip2-compress-level @var{n} +@itemx --no-compress @opindex compress-level @opindex bzip2-compress-level +@opindex no-compress Set compression level to @var{n} for the ZIP and ZLIB compression algorithms. The default is to use the default compression level of zlib (normally 6). @option{--bzip2-compress-level} sets the compression level for the BZIP2 compression algorithm (defaulting to 6 as well). This is a different option from @option{--compress-level} since BZIP2 uses a significant amount of memory for each additional compression level. -@option{-z} sets both. A value of 0 for @var{n} disables compression. -A value of -1 forces compression using the default level. + +Option @option{-z} sets both. A value of 0 for @var{n} disables +compression. A value of -1 forces compression using the default +level. Option @option{--no-compress} is identical to @option{-z0}. Except for the @option{--store} command compression is always used unless @command{gpg} detects that the input is already compressed. To -inhibit the use of compression use @option{-z0}; to force compression -use @option{-z-1} or option @option{z} with another compression level -than the default as indicated by -1. Note that this overriding of the -default deection works only with @option{z} and not with the long -variant of this option. +inhibit the use of compression use @option{-z0} or +@option{--no-compress}; to force compression use @option{-z-1} or +option @option{z} with another compression level than the default as +indicated by -1. Note that this overriding of the default deection +works only with @option{z} and not with the long variant of this +option. @item --bzip2-decompress-lowmem |