Gzip --force option does not work with --recursive option

[Perry A. Gerakines]

I noticed that the --force option is incompatible with --recursive.

For example, if I enter the command "gzip -frv *" in directory c:\dir1
which contains subdirectory dir2, I get:

c:\dir1> gzip -frv *
gzip: dir2: Permission denied


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