From e1e1f87eb43d1a23380e3253abded7ee8b3d7660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:48:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Minor change. * doc/tar.texi: Improve some wording. --- doc/tar.texi | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index ed8e526..5346402 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 -- 2.45.2