Hi,
Repost of mine, with restored
cc: Julian Seward <jsew...@bzip.org>
as I just noticed (while later answering Chris Rees), that
Julian Seward <jsew...@bzip.org>
( author of imported code in src/ ) mistakenly dropped by
bf1...@gmail.com
(so Chris inherited depleted CC line from b f)
Reference:
> From: "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:19:33 +0200
>
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> "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
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Cheers,
Julian
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