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author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2010-03-02 18:48:20 +0200 |
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committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2010-03-02 18:48:20 +0200 |
commit | e1e1f87eb43d1a23380e3253abded7ee8b3d7660 (patch) | |
tree | 4bc0d56ead03f457a582cfbd2a52db3eebfb6971 /doc/tar.texi | |
parent | bffe1074aab0bd180b6b522f07f951f73ef59191 (diff) | |
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Minor change.
* doc/tar.texi: Improve some wording.
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diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index ed8e5264..5346402f 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -8639,10 +8639,11 @@ switch to @samp{posix}. @cindex lzop @cindex compress @GNUTAR{} is able to create and read compressed archives. It supports -@command{gzip}, @command{bzip2}, @command{lzip}, @command{lzma} and -@command{lzop} compression programs. For backward compatibility, it -also supports @command{compress} command, although we strongly recommend -against using it, because it is by far less effective than other +a wide variety of compression programs, namely: @command{gzip}, +@command{bzip2}, @command{lzip}, @command{lzma}, @command{lzop}, +@command{xz} and traditional @command{compress}. The latter is +supported mostly for backward compatibility, and we recommend +against using it, because it is by far less effective than the other compression programs@footnote{It also had patent problems in the past.}. Creating a compressed archive is simple: you just specify a |