diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index e69de29..3fed724 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
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+gzip-1.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/gzip.spec b/gzip.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9336a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gzip.spec
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+Summary: The GNU data compression program.
+Name: gzip
+Version: 1.3
+Release: 6
+Copyright: GPL
+Group: Applications/File
+Source: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch2: gzip-1.3-mktemp.patch
+Patch3: gzip-1.2.4-zforce.patch
+Patch5: gzip-1.2.4a-dirinfo.patch
+URL: http://www.gzip.org/
+Prereq: /sbin/install-info
+Requires: mktemp
+Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/gzip-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression
+program.  Gzipped files have a .gz extension.
+
+Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a
+very commonly used data compression program.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch2 -p1 -b .mktemp
+%patch3 -p1 -b .zforce
+%patch5 -p1 -b .dirinfo
+
+%build
+%configure  --bindir=/bin
+make 
+make gzip.info
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%makeinstall  bindir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/bin gzip.info
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
+ln -sf ../../bin/gzip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/gzip
+ln -sf ../../bin/gunzip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/gunzip
+
+for i in  zcmp zegrep zforce zless znew gzexe zdiff zfgrep zgrep zmore ; do
+    mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/bin/$i $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/$i
+done
+
+gzip -9nf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/gzip.info*
+
+
+cat > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/zless <<EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+/bin/zcat "\$@" | /usr/bin/less
+EOF
+chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/zless
+
+%post
+/sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/gzip.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir 
+
+%preun
+if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
+    /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/gzip.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir
+fi
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog THANKS TODO
+/bin/*
+/usr/bin/*
+%{_mandir}/*/*
+%{_infodir}/gzip.info*
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Jul 13 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
+- automatic rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 27 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsr�d <teg@redhat.com>
+- rebuild
+
+* Wed Jun 07 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsr�d <teg@redhat.com>
+- Use %%{_mandir}, %%{_infodir},  %%configure, %%makeinstall
+  and %%{_tmppath}
+
+* Fri May 12 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsr�d <teg@redhat.com>
+- Add root as default owner of the files, permits building 
+  as non-root user
+
+* Wed May 10 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsr�d <teg@redhat.com>
+- Build system handles stripping
+- Don't do thing the system does, like creating directories
+- use --bindir /bin
+- Added URL
+- skip unnecesarry sed step
+- Include THANKS, AUTHORS, ChangeLog, TODO
+
+* Mon Mar 20 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
+- 1.3
+- handle RPM_OPT_FLAGS
+
+* Tue Feb 15 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
+- handle compressed man pages even better
+
+* Tue Feb 08 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
+- adopt patch from Paul Eggert to fix detection of the improper tables in
+  inflate.c(huft_build)
+- the latest released version 1.2.4a, which provides documentation updates
+  only. But it lets us use small revision numbers again
+- add an dirinfo entry for gzip.info so we can get rid of the ugly --entry
+  args to install-info
+
+* Mon Feb  7 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
+- handle compressed manpages
+
+* Thu Feb 03 2000 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
+- Fix bug #7970
+
+* Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> 
+- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 14)
+
+* Thu Dec 17 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
+- built against gliibc 2.1
+
+* Thu May 07 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
+- translations modified for de, fr, tr
+
+* Thu Apr 09 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
+- added /usr/bin/gzip and /usr/bin/gunzip symlinks as some programs are too
+  brain dead to figure out they should be at least trying to use $PATH
+- added BuildRoot
+
+* Wed Jan 28 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- fix /tmp races
+
+* Sun Sep 14 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- uses install-info
+- applied patch for gzexe
+
+* Mon Jun 02 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- built against glibc
+
+* Tue Apr 22 1997 Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com>
+- (Entry added for Marc by Erik) fixed gzexe to use /bin/gzip
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..2fadb07 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+c677e609f4df02d7699e1e6ca2d17638  gzip-1.3.tar.gz