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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat".
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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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