"b. f." wrote: > > > > I suggest we should add a See Also section to man bzip2, > > > > FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE & current man bzip2 > > .../-current/src/contrib/bzip2/bzip2.1 > > > > adding URLs > > http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -> > > http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ > > > > as currently no reference is made to 7zip or 7-zip > > I'm a bit confused -- are you recommending this because you think that > users should be aware of the the other compression methods/archive > formats that 7zip uses, so that they can investigate alternatives, or > just because it is a Windows program that can decompress bzipped > files?
Yes. If FreeBSD users happen to export .bz2 files to Microsoft users, uts nice to be able to tell MS users at least 1 MS program that can access the format. > In either case, I don't see any reason to single out 7zip -- > we have xz(1) in the base system now, and there are other, arguably > better compression methods in Ports. And there is a lot of > Windows-based software that can decompress bzip2, including Windows > ports of bzip2 itself. OK didnt know that. by all means add a URL. > I don't think that the bzip2 manpage is the > appropriate place to add this kind of information. (Perhaps the > FreeBSD Handbook, in a section about working with files typically > found on FreeBSD or other Unixen in Windows, or in libarchive(5), if > it were changed to support the 7zip archive format.) And I don't think > that -hackers is the appropriate list for this proposal -- -doc seems > to be the right place. Well I'm an old Unix hand, I have much more faith in the man command, that works on machines even if no net connected. (& easy to edit, & format without the tool chain from hell that doc uses) hence I suggested adding a URL in see also of man. Cos' if eg I get a phone call from an MS [l]user saying "what do I do with your .bz2?" I would first by reflex type man bzip2 /See Also. & not first connect to net & mouse around to docs. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org 17th Sept, http://berklix.org/sfd/ Oct. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
