From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 29 12: 2:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CB337B400 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD96FBD07; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13235; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:02:31 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2TK10W11126; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Tom Rhodes , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat". References: <20020329172526.B1154-100000@hades> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 29 Mar 2002 12:01:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020329172526.B1154-100000@hades> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas 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