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Changes on this HOWTO, including the licence was allowed by the author (http://lists.tldp.org/go.to?list=discuss&cmd=showmsg&msgnum=11737).
Updates to 2.0
This is a summary of my updates and my reasons for them:
Changed title from Bzip mini-HOWTO to Bzip HOWTO since there really isn't any competition for this HOWTO or a more complete version out there.
- Turned David Fetter's email address from a heading into an 'authors' section
- Fixed some of the headings hierarchy and nesting, but I have some work to go
- Removed linktexts since they only have any use in hyperlinked versions of the HOWTO - these links will be useless in pure text releases, for example.
- Changes to the Introduction
- Removed mention of the bzip2 algorithm being 'new' since it dates the HOWTO - it was new in 1999 but not now.
- Added an Assumptions section so the reader knows whether s/he is qualified enough to understand and use the HOWTO. I think all of the HOWTOs should have one of these.
- Moved the 'future editions' comments into its own section since it doesn't really belong in an introduction. Besides, I doubt that any of these 'future editions' will be implemented anyway.
- Updated e-mail addresses and links where Google gave me new ones. Ones that I couldn't update have been left blank. The whole section on 'in your language' should be taken out since TLDP should be hosting these copies!
- I provided a more verbose explanation on compiling from make since I don't think this is common knowledge
- Changed 'using bzip2 by itself' to a more useful copy-and-paste of the program's basic features. Someone using this HOWTO has probably already consulted the manpage and needs more hand holding.
- Updated the tar commands. tar now provides a -j switch to use bzip and --use-compress-program seems to have been removed (at least from my version of tar)
