docs/84271: compress(1) doesn't warn about nasty link handling

[Ceri Davies]

The following reply was made to PR docs/84271; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: garys at opusnet.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/84271: compress(1) doesn't warn about nasty link handling
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:29:38 +0100

 On 29 Jul 2005, at 05:22, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
 > Apply patch with new paragraph at end of DESCRIPTION
 > and a new BUGS section:
 >
 > --- /pr/work/compress..orig.1    Thu Jul 28 21:01:24 2005
 > +++ /pr/work/compress.1    Thu Jul 28 21:19:35 2005
 > @@ -152,6 +152,16 @@
 >  coding (as used in the historical command pack), or adaptive Huffman
 >  coding (as used in the historical command compact), and takes less
 >  time to compute.
 > +.Pp
 > +If
 > +.Ar file
 > +is a soft or hard link
 > +.Nm compress
 > +will replace it with a compressed copy of the linked-to file,
 > +leaving that file uncompressed.
 > +If
 > +.Ar file
 > +is hard linked, it will
 >  .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 >  .Ex -std compress uncompress
 >  .Pp
 
 This patch looks like it adds half of a sentence?
 i.e:
 
    If file is hard linked, it will
 
 Ceri
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