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 gzexe \- compress executable files in place
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B gzexe
-[ name ...  ]
+.I "name .\|.\|."
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .I  gzexe
 utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them
 automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a penalty
-in performance).  For example if you execute ``gzexe /bin/cat'' it
+in performance).  For example if you execute ``gzexe /usr/bin/gdb'' it
 will create the following two files:
 .nf
 .br
-    -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  bin   9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
-    -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin  24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~
+    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1026675 Jun  7 13:53 /usr/bin/gdb
+    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2304524 May 30 13:02 /usr/bin/gdb~
 .fi
-/bin/cat~ is the original file and /bin/cat is the self-uncompressing
-executable file.  You can remove /bin/cat~ once you are sure that
-/bin/cat works properly.
+/usr/bin/gdb~ is the original file and /usr/bin/gdb is the self-uncompressing
+executable file.  You can remove /usr/bin/gdb~ once you are sure that
+/usr/bin/gdb works properly.
 .PP
 This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
 .SH OPTIONS
@@ -28,16 +28,24 @@ Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)
 .SH CAVEATS
-The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some
-security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies
+The compressed executable is a shell script.  This may create some
+security holes.  In particular, the compressed executable relies
 on the PATH environment variable to find
 .I gzip
-and some other utilities
-.I (tail, chmod, ln, sleep).
+and some standard utilities
+.RI ( basename ,
+.IR chmod ,
+.IR ln ,
+.IR mkdir ,
+.IR mktemp ,
+.IR rm ,
+.IR sleep ,
+and
+.IR tail ).
 .SH "BUGS"
-.I gzexe 
+.I gzexe
 attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable,
 but you may have to fix them manually in some cases, using
 .I chmod
 or
-.I chown.
+.IR chown .