tags 269612 patch stop ----- Hello,
Here is a small patch for this bug. Regards, -- Stéphane Aulery
--- zdiff.1.old 2012-02-05 00:02:55.584733327 +0100 +++ zdiff.1 2012-02-05 00:43:37.228840807 +0100 @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ [ diff_options ] file1 [ file2 ] .SH DESCRIPTION +.P .I Zcmp and .I zdiff @@ -23,11 +24,11 @@ .I cmp or .IR diff "." -If only 1 file is specified, then the files compared are -.I file1 -and an uncompressed -.IR file1 ".gz." -If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to +If only one file is specified, then it is compared to a file with the same name +without the +.I ".gz" +extension. If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary +and fed to .I cmp or .IR diff "." @@ -36,6 +37,13 @@ or .I diff is preserved. +.P +When both files must be uncompressed before comparison, the second is +uncompressed to +.IR "/tmp" "." +In all other cases, +.IR "zdiff" " and " "zcmp" +use only a pipe. .SH "SEE ALSO" cmp(1), diff(1), zmore(1), zgrep(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1) .SH BUGS
