From 3ea177e3fa5a42dfe01b63b4c854c3478a1ea60d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:24:27 +0100 Subject: * NEWS: sort no longer compresses temporaries by default. * bootstrap.conf: Remove findprog. * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): The default is to not compress. Don't treat "" specially. * src/sort.c: Don't include findprog.h. (create_temp): Compress only if the user specified --compress-program. * tests/misc/sort-compress: Adjusts tests to match new behavior. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 04c1b4e1e..99412e425 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3634,9 +3634,7 @@ Other options are: @table @samp @item --compress-program=@var{prog} -If @var{prog} is not the empty string, compress any temporary files -with the program @var{prog} rather than with the default compression -method. The default is currently @command{gzip} but this may change. +Compress any temporary files with the program @var{prog}. With no arguments, @var{prog} must compress standard input to standard output, and when given the @option{-d} option it must decompress @@ -3647,9 +3645,6 @@ Terminate with an error if @var{prog} exits with nonzero status. Whitespace and the backslash character should not appear in @var{prog}; they are reserved for future use. -If @var{prog} is the empty string, do not compress temporary -files. - @item -k @var{pos1}[,@var{pos2}] @itemx --key=@var{pos1}[,@var{pos2}] @opindex -k -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf