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| author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-26 15:10:37 +0000 |
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| committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-26 15:10:37 +0000 |
| commit | 20156c595569d2cac470c2472050c9ec8d9f2393 (patch) | |
| tree | a5cc99712e75a5e266b39d00584dd5312e40eb50 /usr.bin/compress/compress.1 | |
| parent | 7493210c173d84463b654b3359a44929bba1cf56 (diff) | |
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Add DIAGNOSTICS section name. Spelling
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diff --git a/usr.bin/compress/compress.1 b/usr.bin/compress/compress.1 index 075052f..69c2873 100644 --- a/usr.bin/compress/compress.1 +++ b/usr.bin/compress/compress.1 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ reduction in size and file overwriting are not performed, the input file is not removed, and the attributes of the input file are not retained. .Pp The options are as follows: -.Bl -tag -width Ds +.Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl b Specify the .Ar bits @@ -122,13 +122,13 @@ must be between 9 and 16. After the .Ar bits limit is reached, -.Nm compress +.Nm periodically checks the compression ratio. If it is increasing, -.Nm compress +.Nm continues to use the existing code dictionary. However, if the compression ratio decreases, -.Nm compress +.Nm discards the table of substrings and rebuilds it from scratch. This allows the algorithm to adapt to the next "block" of the file. .Pp @@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ Compression is generally much better than that achieved by Huffman coding (as used in the historical command pack), or adaptive Huffman coding (as used in the historical command compact), and takes less time to compute. -.Pp +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS The -.Nm compress +.Nm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. .Sh SEE ALSO .Rs |
