* zdiff.1: Mention that these programs currently understand only

formats that gzip does.  Problem reported by Jari Aalto in
<http://bugs.debian.org/404099>.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9649dfcefcb1436121617b0e88ba1480159755f8..1536e72430ca46594344a3ae11890c2aeac921fe 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-12-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       * zdiff.1: Mention that these programs currently understand only
+       formats that gzip does.  Problem reported by Jari Aalto in
+       <http://bugs.debian.org/404099>.
+
 2006-12-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        * inflate.c (huft_build): Fix regression that caused gzip to

diff --git a/zdiff.1 b/zdiff.1
index ea3bf4103fc7cb27570fad77b0db42b04aeb17f1..588974c1150e316aa391ea76108d899d0a10b0eb 100644 (file)
--- a/zdiff.1
+++ b/zdiff.1
@@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ zcmp, zdiff \- compare compressed files
 [ file2 ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I  Zcmp
-and 
+and
 .I zdiff
 are used to invoke the
 .I cmp
 or the
 .I diff
-program on compressed files.  All options specified are passed directly to
+program on files compressed via
+.IR gzip "."
+All options specified are passed directly to
 .I cmp
 or
 .IR diff "."
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to
 .I cmp
 or
 .IR diff "."
-The exit status from 
+The exit status from
 .I cmp
 or
 .I diff