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+## Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Bill Denney
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} gunzip (@var{gzfile}, @var{dir})
+## Unpack the gzip archive @var{gzfile} to the directory @var{dir}. If
+## @var{dir} is not specified, it defaults to the current directory. If
+## @var{gzfile} is a directory, all gzfiles in the directory will be
+## recursively gunzipped.
+## @seealso{gzip, unpack, bunzip2, unzip, untar}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Bill Denney <denney@seas.upenn.edu>
+
+function varargout = gunzip (gzfile, dir = ".")
+
+ if (nargin != 1 && nargin != 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ varargout = cell (1, nargout);
+ [varargout{:}] = unpack (gzfile, dir, mfilename ());
+ else
+ unpack (gzfile, dir, mfilename ());
+ endif
+
+endfunction