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

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:11:18AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 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.
> 
If you have diffs for man(1) and/or makewhatis(1), please send
them to me for review.  Thanks for doing the catman(1) part in
advance!


Cheers,
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