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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2012-07-04 22:31:58 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2012-07-04 22:31:58 +0300
commitcafb523adac1caf305e70a04bc37f25602bf990c (patch)
treead15bc51b5912d0516be384beb78c5a225e67671 /src/xz/xz.1
parentBump the version number to 5.1.2alpha. (diff)
downloadxz-cafb523adac1caf305e70a04bc37f25602bf990c.tar.xz
xz: Document --block-list better.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder.
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diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1
index 0368f05b..9038f690 100644
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+++ b/src/xz/xz.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
.\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
.\"
-.TH XZ 1 "2012-07-03" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
+.TH XZ 1 "2012-07-04" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
.
.SH NAME
xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files
@@ -820,6 +820,12 @@ The uncompressed
of the blocks are specified as a comma-separated list.
Omitting a size (two or more consecutive commas) is a shorthand
to use the size of the previous block.
+.IP ""
+If the input file is bigger than the sum of
+.IR sizes ,
+the last value in
+.I sizes
+is repeated until the end of the file.
A special value of
.B 0
may be used as the last value to indicate that