Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat". Message-ID: <200203290410.g2T4A3J95233@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/36453; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat".
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 06:07:02 +0200
On 2002-03-28 19:27, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> The compress(1) manual documents the command "zcat" which is better
> documented by the zcat(1) manual and which doesn't belong in this manual.
>
> Remove all mention of "zcat" (four places) and add zcat(1) to the "See
> Also" section. Maybe also mention it in the description of "-c".
How about this? I haven't added zcat(1) to SEE ALSO, since it's not
referenced anywhere in the manpage. Also had a few reservations about
adding only zcat(1). If we add this, then we should probably add other
compress-tools too, like gzip(1), gunzip(1), zmore(1), etc.
What do you think?
Index: compress.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/compress/compress.1,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -2 -u -r1.11 compress.1
--- compress.1 11 Sep 2001 12:27:15 -0000 1.11
+++ compress.1 29 Mar 2002 04:04:06 -0000
@@ -42,6 +42,5 @@
.Sh NAME
.Nm compress ,
-.Nm uncompress ,
-.Nm zcat
+.Nm uncompress
.Nd compress and expand data
.Sh SYNOPSIS
@@ -53,6 +52,4 @@
.Op Fl cfv
.Op Ar
-.Nm zcat
-.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Compress
@@ -154,5 +151,5 @@
time to compute.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
-.Ex -std compress uncompress zcat
+.Ex -std compress uncompress
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Rs
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