Date: 29 Mar 2002 12:01:00 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat". Message-ID: <qzu1qzcfer.1qz@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020329172526.B1154-100000@hades> References: <20020329172526.B1154-100000@hades>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes: > but your idea of adding cross-references to all the compression tools > available in the base system is certainly fine. Except that the "bzip" tools won't deal with "compress" files or vice-versa (unlike the "gzip" tools) so it's debatebly stretching the purpose of "See Also" to mention them in "compress". But I'm sure I've wished for such weakly-related entries too sometimes. (There probably should be two categories (and/or accompaning "whatis" short descriptions), but that'll never happen.) Bottom line: I don't care. If someone is a glutton for punishment, he could reference the compression(7) manual or some Handbook Section and write that. :) (But there must be some reason I never see the handbook referenced and I can guess what it is.) Methinks the FDP could use a "Policy Manual" to cover issues like the purpose of "See Also". (I shoulda been a bureaucrat.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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