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

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 1 18:13:19 PDT 2003


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.)


Cheers,
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