From: Karl Berry Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:15:05 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: update to FDL 1.3, minor clean-up X-Git-Tag: v1.3.13~5 X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a092b25d9533de77f29e14e938a9a60876e95414;p=debian%2Fgzip doc: update to FDL 1.3, minor clean-up * NEWS, README, TODO: Update FDL s/1.2/1.3/. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c9e9254..680969d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free diff --git a/README b/README index bfddd81..fa364ac 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ This is the file README for the gzip distribution. +The GNU gzip home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip. + gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. The GNU Project @@ -27,10 +29,8 @@ Huffman encoder. gunzip is able to decompress .z files (packed or gzip'ed). Several planned features are not yet supported (see the file TODO). -See the file NEWS for a summary of changes since 0.5. See the file -INSTALL for installation instructions. Some answers to frequently -asked questions are given in the file INSTALL, please read it. (In -particular, please don't ask me once more for an /etc/magic entry.) +See the file NEWS for a summary of changes since the last release. +See the file INSTALL for installation instructions. WARNING: gzip is sensitive to compiler bugs, particularly when optimizing. Use "make check" to check that gzip was compiled @@ -52,14 +52,8 @@ Bug reports should ideally include: If you send me patches for machines I don't have access to, please test them very carefully. gzip is used for backups, it must be extremely reliable. -GNU tar 1.11.2 has a -z option to invoke directly gzip, so you don't have to -patch it. The package ftp.uu.net:/languages/emacs-lisp/misc/jka-compr19.el.Z -also supports gzip'ed files. - The znew and gzexe shell scripts provided with gzip benefit from -(but do not require) the cpmod utility to transfer file attributes. -It is available in -ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume11/cpmod.Z. +(but do not require) the (non-GNU) cpmod utility to transfer file attributes. The sample programs zread.c, sub.c and add.c in subdirectory sample are provided as examples of useful complements to gzip. Read the @@ -136,7 +130,7 @@ Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index bc8c086..f2969d1 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2006, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free