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

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Josh,

On 3/8/21 8:07 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

Thanks for the patch.  I applied it, with a minor cosmetic tweak in the 
source.  See 
<https://github.com/alejandro-colomar/man-pages/commit/f2af28be182d51e0fd6dd13dd879d3e2ec3b835f>.

We write variable names and such in separate lines, with nothing but 
punctuation, so 'and' belongs to a different line.

Thanks,

Alex

> ---
>   man7/environ.7 | 10 ++--------
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
> index ee8ca97f6..77d9d3950 100644
> --- a/man7/environ.7
> +++ b/man7/environ.7
> @@ -339,16 +339,10 @@ 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 ,
> -and
> -.BR GZIP .
> +.BR MORE and
> +.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),
> 

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/