compress(1) handles link badly and does not provide link-handling options.
Document this behavior.
PR: 84271
Submitted by: garys@opusnet.com
How to reproduce:
$ echo "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" | tee file1 > file2 $ ls -latrh total 16 drwxr-xr-x 100 fernape fernape 4,0K 8 feb. 18:05 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 17B 8 feb. 18:09 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 17B 8 feb. 18:09 file1 drwxr-xr-x 2 fernape fernape 512B 8 feb. 18:09 ./ $ ln -s file2 mylink $ compress file1 mylink $ ls -latrth total 20 drwxr-xr-x 100 fernape fernape 4,0K 8 feb. 18:05 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 11B 8 feb. 18:09 mylink.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 17B 8 feb. 18:09 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 11B 8 feb. 18:09 file1.Z drwxr-xr-x 2 fernape fernape 512B 8 feb. 18:09 ./