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

[Gary W. Swearingen]

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

From: garys at opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
Subject: Re: docs/84271: compress(1) doesn't warn about nasty link handling
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:52:20 -0700

 Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> writes:
 
 > This patch looks like it adds half of a sentence?
 
 I didn't delete enough and apparently didn't review it with
 my "manfile" command as I normally do.  Sorry.
 
 
 --- compress..orig.1	Thu Jul 28 21:01:24 2005
 +++ compress.1	Sun Jul 31 08:32:13 2005
 @@ -152,6 +152,13 @@
  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.
  .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
  .Ex -std compress uncompress
  .Pp
 @@ -188,3 +195,5 @@
  .Nm
  command appeared in
  .Bx 4.3 .
 +.Sh BUGS
 +The program does not handle links well and has no link-handling options.