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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:28:15 +0200 (EET)
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat".
Message-ID:  <20020329172526.B1154-100000@hades>
In-Reply-To: <20020329002524.63fa97ec.darklogik@pittgoth.com>

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On 2002-03-29 00:25, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> >  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.
>
> Could we list the MOST used ones?  Or perhaps ones that are only
> part of the base system.  In essance, things like bzip wouldn't be
> listed...  Unless that was your plan ;)

Only problem is bzip2 *is* in the base system:

    hades:~$ ls -ld /usr/src/contrib/bzip2
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  - 1024 Feb  1 21:07 /usr/src/contrib/bzip2/

but your idea of adding cross-references to all the compression tools
available in the base system is certainly fine.

- Giorgos


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