Thanks, I installed this fix into gzip:
2006-12-22 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* zdiff.1: Mention that these programs currently understand only
formats that gzip does. Problem reported by Jari Aalto in
<http://bugs.debian.org/404099>.
--- zdiff.1 16 Jun 1993 16:35:26 -0000 1.1
+++ zdiff.1 23 Dec 2006 01:02:00 -0000
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ are used to invoke the
.I cmp
or the
.I diff
-program on compressed files. All options specified are passed directly to
+program on files compressed via
+.IR gzip "."
+All options specified are passed directly to
.I cmp
or
.IR diff "."
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