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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:50:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/36453: [PATCH] compress(1)
Message-ID:  <200204020350.g323o3q47913@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR docs/36453; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/36453: [PATCH] compress(1)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:48:50 -0800 (PST)

 Follow-up to Giorgos's work and Gary's comments, this patch not
 only utilizes the patch made by Giorgos, but also adds some other
 compression utilities to compress(1).  Comments are welcome, Gary,
 what do you think?
 
 --
 Tom (darklogik) Rhodes
 
 
 --- compress.1.old	Mon Apr  1 22:40:49 2002
 +++ compress.1	Mon Apr  1 22:53:05 2002
 @@ -41,8 +41,6 @@
  .Os
  .Sh NAME
  .Nm compress ,
 -.Nm uncompress ,
 -.Nm zcat
  .Nd compress and expand data
  .Sh SYNOPSIS
  .Nm
 @@ -52,8 +50,6 @@
  .Nm uncompress
  .Op Fl cfv
  .Op Ar
 -.Nm zcat
 -.Op Ar
  .Sh DESCRIPTION
  .Nm Compress
  reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding.
 @@ -74,10 +70,6 @@
  .Dq .Z
  extension.
  .Pp
 -.Nm Zcat
 -is an alias for
 -.Dq "uncompress -c" .
 -.Pp
  If renaming the files would cause files to be overwritten and the standard
  input device is a terminal, the user is prompted (on the standard error
  output) for confirmation.
 @@ -153,8 +145,14 @@
  coding (as used in the historical command compact), and takes less
  time to compute.
  .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 -.Ex -std compress uncompress zcat
 +.Ex -std compress uncompress
  .Sh SEE ALSO
 +.Xr zcat 1 ,
 +.Xr gunzip 1 ,
 +.Xr gzip 1 ,
 +.Xr zmore 1 ,
 +.Xr znew 1 ,
 +.Xr gzexe 1
  .Rs
  .%A Welch, Terry A.
  .%D June, 1984

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