Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:08:05 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: man bzip2 - suggest we add to See Also Message-ID: <CADLo838fac5JyQxoEq04FHJ7vQN2Z%2Bu=cRSD7LJxSs4=ypPyXw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201109111219.p8BCJXwY059714@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <CAGFTUwNdiEUJhDjN=dJ8B5NoAaJ9W6%2BP6J4THG0Fb26z4u0kqQ@mail.gmail.com> <201109111219.p8BCJXwY059714@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On 11 September 2011 13:19, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > "b. f." wrote: >> > >> > I suggest we should add a See Also section to man bzip2, >> > >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE & current man bzip2 >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 .../-current/src/contrib/bzip2/bzip2.1 >> > >> > adding URLs >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://www.7-zip.org/download.html =A0 =A0 =A0-> >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ >> > >> > as currently no reference is made to 7zip or 7-zip >> >> I'm a bit confused -- are you recommending this because you think that >> users should be aware of the the other compression methods/archive >> formats that 7zip uses, so that they can investigate alternatives, or >> just because it is a Windows program that can decompress bzipped >> files? > > Yes. > If FreeBSD users happen to export .bz2 files to Microsoft users, > uts nice to be able to tell MS users at least 1 MS program that can > access the format. > >> In either case, I don't see any reason to single out 7zip -- >> we have xz(1) in the base system now, and there are other, arguably >> better compression methods in Ports. And there is a lot of >> Windows-based software that can decompress bzip2, including Windows >> ports of bzip2 itself. > > OK didnt know that. by all means add a URL. > >> I don't think that the bzip2 manpage is the >> appropriate place to add this kind of information. =A0(Perhaps the >> FreeBSD Handbook, in a section about working with files typically >> found on FreeBSD or other Unixen in Windows, or in libarchive(5), if >> it were changed to support the 7zip archive format.) And I don't think >> that -hackers is the appropriate list for this proposal -- -doc seems >> to be the right place. > > Well I'm an old Unix hand, I have much more faith in the man command, > that works on machines even if no net connected. (& easy to edit, > & format without the tool chain from hell that doc uses) hence I > suggested adding a URL in see also of man. > > Cos' if eg I get a phone call from an MS [l]user saying "what do I > do with your .bz2?" I would first by reflex type man bzip2 /See > Also. =A0& not first connect to net & mouse around to docs. > Do we usually add a Windows analogue of our commands to the man page? I would have thought that Google is definitely the most appropriate medium for finding that out. Chris
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