Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:11:18 -0700
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.

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Thu May 01 2003 - 22:11:23 UTC

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