Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:20:03 GMT From: "A. Hamilton-Wright" <andrew@qemg.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/123010: Misleading Documentation in gzip(1) Message-ID: <200804272320.m3RNK3rc088061@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/123010; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "A. Hamilton-Wright" <andrew@qemg.org> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: "A. Hamilton-Wright" <andrew@qemg.org> Subject: Re: docs/123010: Misleading Documentation in gzip(1) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:17:27 -0300 (ADT) Suggested modification to source of /usr/share/man/man1/gzip.1.gz below: --- gzip.1.old 2008-04-27 20:08:23.000000000 -0300 +++ gzip.1.new 2008-04-27 20:13:54.000000000 -0300 @@ -72,10 +72,17 @@ will be replaced with another file with the suffix, set by the .Fl S Ar suffix option, added, if possible. +.Pp In decompression mode, each .Ar file will be checked for existence, as will the file with the suffix added. +Each file argument must contain a separate complete archive; +when multiple files are indicated, each is decompressed in turn. +In the case of +.Nm gzcat +the resulting data is then concatenated in the manner of +.Xr cat 1 . .Pp If invoked as .Nm gunzip
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