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* doc/tar.texi: Improve some wording.
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Sergey Poznyakoff
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@@ -8639,10 +8639,11 @@ switch to @samp{posix}.
@cindex lzop
@cindex compress
@GNUTAR{} is able to create and read compressed archives. It supports
@command{gzip}, @command{bzip2}, @command{lzip}, @command{lzma} and
@command{lzop} compression programs. For backward compatibility, it
also supports @command{compress} command, although we strongly recommend
against using it, because it is by far less effective than other
a wide variety of compression programs, namely: @command{gzip},
@command{bzip2}, @command{lzip}, @command{lzma}, @command{lzop},
@command{xz} and traditional @command{compress}. The latter is
supported mostly for backward compatibility, and we recommend
against using it, because it is by far less effective than the other
compression programs@footnote{It also had patent problems in the past.}.
Creating a compressed archive is simple: you just specify a