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FYI: release soon

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, 22845 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rusty <at> rustcorp.com.au
Subject: bug#22845: FYI: release soon
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:54:08 -0800

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I'll push this in the next day or so, so any improvements people
> can suggest in the mean time would be most welcome.

Thanks for doing all that.

In NEWS, there should be one "New features" section, not two.

I had difficulty following the new documentation. Perhaps it's because of the 
word "synchronize" and the recently-added --synchronous option. Also, the phrase 
"cannot tell the difference" is confusing -- it's trying to talk about the 
output of gunzip, not about gunzip itself. And "reduces compression" is 
ambiguous, since compression already reduces. How about something like the 
following instead?

@item --rsyncable
Cater better to the @command{rsync} program.  Although does not compress
quite as well, it lets the @code{rsync} program take advantage of
similarities in the uncompressed input when synchronizing two files
compressed with this flag.

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