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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:19:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r39985 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1211121518280.2164@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <201211112229.qABMTASB009430@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201211112229.qABMTASB009430@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Author: eadler
> Date: Sun Nov 11 22:29:09 2012
> New Revision: 39985
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39985
>
> Log:
>  Ports are no longer needed to uncompress these formats.
>
>  Approved by:	jkois (mentor)
>
> Modified:
>  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
>
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun Nov 11 22:29:07 2012	(r39984)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun Nov 11 22:29:09 2012	(r39985)
> @@ -924,42 +923,11 @@
[trim]
> -		    </tgroup>
> -		  </informaltable>
> +		  <para>These files are then compressed using either
> +		    the <literal>zip</literal> or
> +		    <literal>bz2</literal> compression schemes.
> +		    &man.tar.1; can be used to uncompress these
> +		    files.</para>
>
> 		  <para>So the &postscript; version of the Handbook,
> 		    compressed using <literal>bzip2</literal> will be stored in a file
> @@ -982,8 +950,7 @@
> 	    to do this.</para>
>
> 	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html-split.tar.bz2</userinput>;
> -&prompt.root; <userinput>bzip2 -d book.html-split.tar.bz2</userinput>
> -&prompt.root; <userinput>tar xvf book.html-split.tar</userinput></screen>
> +&prompt.root; <userinput>tar xvf book.html-split.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>

Hmm, relying on the new magic to assume 'z' if needed.  Maybe the above 
note should say that tar will automatically detect that there is 
compression and the appropriate format?

-Ben Kaduk



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