Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Alex,

On 3/20/21 12:57 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> 
> gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> [ alx: srcfix ]
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man7/environ.7 | 9 ++-------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
> index ee8ca97f6..d618ac749 100644
> --- a/man7/environ.7
> +++ b/man7/environ.7
> @@ -339,16 +339,11 @@ etc.).
>  However, in some traditional uses such an environment variable
>  gives options for the program instead of a pathname.
>  Thus, one has
> -.BR MORE ,
> -.BR LESS ,
> +.B MORE
>  and
> -.BR GZIP .
> +.BR LESS .
>  Such usage is considered mistaken, and to be avoided in new
>  programs.
> -The authors of
> -.I gzip
> -should consider renaming their option to
> -.BR GZIP_OPT .
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR bash (1),
>  .BR csh (1),
> 


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