From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 11 12:29:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B672B1065672 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f45.google.com (mail-pz0-f45.google.com [209.85.210.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947738FC0A for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so18718300pzk.18 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:29:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=5QcjaeYwGnc0coQj47oVEaMWsoKesmfHAKEfbPDmJiE=; b=LDbVEqUKj5eX4mQz1rJm3nIbMFmrXDSMaM0PFi28SQUop6AvkM7lD4AFODJBCT86F2 RYph7PfkgWbax+feP8Xrg+OC1uqrEAkxnc0B3sx1tzRoTIj//72G2jwpatxAbN58MwfK /WokoE529pLsNWp8N0EiHr9kM2hT8vu053NR8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.199.133 with SMTP id jk5mr4740506pbc.486.1315742362304; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.166.13 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Raphael Kubo da Costa , "Julian H. Stacey" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: man bzip2 - suggest we add to See Also X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:29:07 -0000 > > 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.