GNU bug report logs - #46730
man page says program can deal with .zip

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 46730 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 46730 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46730: man page says program can deal with .zip
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:35:16 +0800

PE> You didn't follow the instructions that you quoted.

Oh, so
       To  extract  a zip file with a single member, use a command like gunzip
       <foo.zip or gunzip -S .zip foo.zip.  To extract zip files with  several
       members, use unzip instead of gunzip.

should be

       To  extract  a zip file with a single member, use a command like
       $ gunzip < foo.zip
       or
       $ gunzip -S .zip foo.zip.

As the
<arrow glued to text at the beginning of a line
is treated by the eyeball as part of some
<long running example that probably has a matching> but you never know.

Or as some groff formatting mess.

Anyway please make the arrow more easy to be sure about.
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