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      1 \"Shamelessly copied from zmore.1 by Philippe Troin <phil (a] fifi.org>
      2 \"for Debian GNU/Linux
      3 .TH BZDIFF 1
      4 .SH NAME
      5 bzcmp, bzdiff \- compare bzip2 compressed files
      6 .SH SYNOPSIS
      7 .B bzcmp
      8 [ cmp_options ] file1
      9 [ file2 ]
     10 .br
     11 .B bzdiff
     12 [ diff_options ] file1
     13 [ file2 ]
     14 .SH DESCRIPTION
     15 .I  Bzcmp
     16 and 
     17 .I bzdiff
     18 are used to invoke the
     19 .I cmp
     20 or the
     21 .I diff
     22 program on bzip2 compressed files.  All options specified are passed
     23 directly to
     24 .I cmp
     25 or
     26 .IR diff "."
     27 If only 1 file is specified, then the files compared are
     28 .I file1
     29 and an uncompressed
     30 .IR file1 ".bz2."
     31 If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to
     32 .I cmp
     33 or
     34 .IR diff "."
     35 The exit status from 
     36 .I cmp
     37 or
     38 .I diff
     39 is preserved.
     40 .SH "SEE ALSO"
     41 cmp(1), diff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzgrep(1), bzip2(1)
     42 .SH BUGS
     43 Messages from the
     44 .I cmp
     45 or
     46 .I diff
     47 programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified.
     48