New compression patches from Jerry Peters.

[dump.git] / dump / dump.8.in

diff --git a/dump/dump.8.in b/dump/dump.8.in
index 1ee3c48be94c67ec44c3892d346493a3cf0674df..4969b66307ce69ad3585b397692d46e38125b68b 100644 (file)
--- a/dump/dump.8.in
+++ b/dump/dump.8.in
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"    $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.20 2001/02/21 16:31:47 stelian Exp $
+.\"    $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.21 2001/03/18 15:35:44 stelian Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd __DATE__
 .Dt DUMP 8
@@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ but prints only recognized filesystems in
 which need to be dumped.
 .It Fl z
 Compress every block to be written on the tape using zlib library. This
-option will work only if the tape drive is capable of writing variable 
+option will work only when dumping to a file or pipe or, when dumping
+to a tape drive, if the tape drive is capable of writing variable 
 length blocks. You will need at least the 0.4b22 version of restore in 
 order to extract compressed tapes. Tapes written using compression will
 not be compatible with the BSD tape format.