Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:59:22 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: man bzip2 - suggest we add to See Also Message-ID: <CAGFTUwNdiEUJhDjN=dJ8B5NoAaJ9W6%2BP6J4THG0Fb26z4u0kqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> > I suggest we should add a See Also section to man bzip2, > > FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE & current man bzip2 > .../-current/src/contrib/bzip2/bzip2.1 > > adding URLs > http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -> > http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ > > as currently no reference is made to 7zip or 7-zip I'm a bit confused -- are you recommending this because you think that users should be aware of the the other compression methods/archive formats that 7zip uses, so that they can investigate alternatives, or just because it is a Windows program that can decompress bzipped files? In either case, I don't see any reason to single out 7zip -- we have xz(1) in the base system now, and there are other, arguably better compression methods in Ports. And there is a lot of Windows-based software that can decompress bzip2, including Windows ports of bzip2 itself. I don't think that the bzip2 manpage is the appropriate place to add this kind of information. (Perhaps the FreeBSD Handbook, in a section about working with files typically found on FreeBSD or other Unixen in Windows, or in libarchive(5), if it were changed to support the 7zip archive format.) And I don't think that -hackers is the appropriate list for this proposal -- -doc seems to be the right place. b.
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