From 617e6510a5369480387e39e0e22d567ca3bf5692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:00:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: mention a workaround for --exact option. --- doc/upx.pod | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/upx.pod b/doc/upx.pod index 38ea0b8e..ccb5e811 100644 --- a/doc/upx.pod +++ b/doc/upx.pod @@ -139,8 +139,11 @@ B<--help>: prints the help B<--version>: print the version of B B<--exact>: when compressing, require to be able to get a byte-identical file -after decompression with option B<-d> [NOTE: this is work in progress and does -not work for all formats yet] +after decompression with option B<-d>. [NOTE: this is work in progress and is +not supported for all formats yet. If you do care, as a workaround you can +compress and then decompress your program a first time - any further +compress-decompress steps should then yield byte-identical results +as compared to the first decompressed version.] [ ...to be written... - type `B' for now ]