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Date:      Fri, 2 May 2003 00:11:18 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs
Message-ID:  <20030502071118.GA3258@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com>

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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> it), and then switch the default compression method from
> gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I've had local diffs for this for a long time that I thought I'd be shot
for committing.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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