Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:00:04 -0800 (PST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat". Message-ID: <200203291500.g2TF04a50251@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/36453; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/36453: compress(1) manual has erroneous description of "zcat".
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:56:41 +0200
On 2002-03-28 22:53, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> I think I agree, except that I didn't see that your removed "zcat" and
> it's erroneous description from the DESCRIPTION section. (See subject! :)
> It seems like you meant to remove it.
Indeed. I'll make the following changes later tonight, unless someone
comes up with a good idea for the references in the SEE ALSO section.
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Index: compress.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/compress/compress.1,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -2 -u -r1.11 compress.1
--- compress.1 11 Sep 2001 12:27:15 -0000 1.11
+++ compress.1 29 Mar 2002 14:52:27 -0000
@@ -42,6 +42,5 @@
.Sh NAME
.Nm compress ,
-.Nm uncompress ,
-.Nm zcat
+.Nm uncompress
.Nd compress and expand data
.Sh SYNOPSIS
@@ -53,6 +52,4 @@
.Op Fl cfv
.Op Ar
-.Nm zcat
-.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Compress
@@ -75,8 +72,4 @@
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
@@ -154,5 +147,5 @@
time to compute.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
-.Ex -std compress uncompress zcat
+.Ex -std compress uncompress
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Rs
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Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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