From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 1 19:50:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651A337B417 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g323o3q47913; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:50:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200204020350.g323o3q47913@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Subject: Re: docs/36453: [PATCH] compress(1) Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/36453; it has been noted by GNATS. From: To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/36453: [PATCH] compress(1) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:48:50 -0800 (PST) Follow-up to Giorgos's work and Gary's comments, this patch not only utilizes the patch made by Giorgos, but also adds some other compression utilities to compress(1). Comments are welcome, Gary, what do you think? -- Tom (darklogik) Rhodes --- compress.1.old Mon Apr 1 22:40:49 2002 +++ compress.1 Mon Apr 1 22:53:05 2002 @@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ .Os .Sh NAME .Nm compress , -.Nm uncompress , -.Nm zcat .Nd compress and expand data .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm @@ -52,8 +50,6 @@ .Nm uncompress .Op Fl cfv .Op Ar -.Nm zcat -.Op Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Compress reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding. @@ -74,10 +70,6 @@ .Dq .Z extension. .Pp -.Nm Zcat -is an alias for -.Dq "uncompress -c" . -.Pp If renaming the files would cause files to be overwritten and the standard input device is a terminal, the user is prompted (on the standard error output) for confirmation. @@ -153,8 +145,14 @@ coding (as used in the historical command compact), and takes less time to compute. .Sh DIAGNOSTICS -.Ex -std compress uncompress zcat +.Ex -std compress uncompress .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr zcat 1 , +.Xr gunzip 1 , +.Xr gzip 1 , +.Xr zmore 1 , +.Xr znew 1 , +.Xr gzexe 1 .Rs .%A Welch, Terry A. .%D June, 1984 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message