The following reply was made to PR docs/123010; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "A. Hamilton-Wright" <andrew@qemg.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc: "A. Hamilton-Wright" <andrew@qemg.org>
Subject: Re: docs/123010: Misleading Documentation in gzip(1)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:28:26 -0300 (ADT)
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, A. Hamilton-Wright wrote:
> Suggested modification to source of /usr/share/man/man1/gzip.1.gz
> below:
I just noticed that I hadn't flagged "file" as per the argument
notation. Updated patch:
--- gzip.1.old 2008-04-27 20:08:23.000000000 -0300
+++ gzip.1.new 2008-04-27 20:26:30.000000000 -0300
@@ -72,10 +72,21 @@
will be replaced with another file with the suffix, set by the
.Fl S Ar suffix
option, added, if possible.
+.Pp
In decompression mode, each
.Ar file
will be checked for existence, as will the file with the suffix
added.
+Each
+.Ar file
+argument must contain a separate complete archive;
+when multiple
+.Ar files
+are indicated, each is decompressed in turn.
+In the case of
+.Nm gzcat
+the resulting data is then concatenated in the manner of
+.Xr cat 1 .
.Pp
If invoked as
.Nm gunzip
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