[Forensics-changes] [SCM] debian-forensics/sgzip branch, debian-sid, updated. upstream/0.1-16-g81b10a3

Christophe Monniez christophe.monniez at fccu.be
Thu Feb 14 15:36:30 UTC 2008


The following commit has been merged in the debian-sid branch:
commit f571d87f9e5fe41683d41fe5d48b9edd9638ea0d
Author: Christophe Monniez <christophe.monniez at fccu.be>
Date:   Thu Feb 14 16:42:08 2008 +0100

    Added a man page

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+.TH SGZIP 1 "February 14 2008" Linux 
+.SH NAME
+sgzip \- A tool to compress files in a seekable format
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B sgzip
+.BR [ \-dhRblBLvV ] [file1] [file2] ... [filex]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+sgzip is a program to compress/decompress files, usually dd images.
+sgzip is also the name of the file format that it can manipulate.
+The main feature of this format is that it's seakable.
+Many people archive very large dd images by using a standard compression program such as gzip or bzip2.
+This make it impossible to use the compressed image directly (for example to mount a partition on the image).
+.PP
+sgzip was originally made for the pyflag forensic platform even if pyflag is can handle eyewitness compression  format.
+.PP
+sgzip is based on gzip but provide seekable capability.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B\-d --decompress
+Decompress the file or the standard input.
+.TP
+.B\-h --help
+Shows a short help.
+.TP
+.B\-R --rebuild file
+Rebuilds the Index on this compressed file.
+.TP
+.B\-b --benchmark file
+Benchmarks file and file.sgz
+.TP
+.B\-l --list file
+Tests index integrity for file and list stats.
+.TP
+.B\-B --block blocksize
+Set the blocksize for created files
+.TP
+.B\-L --license
+Display software license.
+.TP
+.B\-v --verbose
+Verbose mode.
+.TP
+.B\-V --version
+Display version number.
+.Bfile1 file2 ... filex
+Files to (de)compress. If none given it use standard input/output.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+afflib(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1)
+.SH AUTHOR
+This manual page was written by Christophe Monniez <christophe.monniez at fccu.be> for the Debian GNU/Linux system  (but  may be used by others).

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