Hi there, Paul Eggert wrote: >> If memory serves, we were going to add a configure-time flag >> to change the program names from z* to gz*, which sounds >> reasonable, when someone gets around to it. > > Exactly.
> Is that a change you could write? That would help move things along, > I expect. How do you expect?. The whole operation can be performed using the option `--program-transform-name=' passed to `configure'. For example, to rename gzip-only scripts including the manpages, we can type: ./configure --prefix=/usr --program-transform-name='s/^z/g&/'