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From: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo)
Date: Tue, 31 May 94 18:19:19 GMT
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Subject: Re: Missing man page for 'tar'
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in article <JKH.94May31124832@nx.ilo.dec.com>,
from 31 May 1994 11:48:32 GMT,
jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com also known as "Jordan Hubbard", wrote [shortend]:
[...]
j@n: "In article <PHILS.94May30223802@satori.tv.tek.com> phils@tv.tek.com (Phil Staub) writes:"
j@n: ""
j@n: " I seem to be missing a man page for 'tar(1)' in FreeBSD 1.1r. I"
j@n: " looked down in the gnu branch of the source tree and found the"
j@n: " sources, but no man page. Has it not been written? "
j@n: ""
j@n: "It has not been written, but Andreas keeps promising.. :-)"
j@n: ""
j@n: " Before you ask, yes, I have tried 'tar --help', and it gives me all"
j@n: " the options, but I'd like a for-real man page."
j@n: ""
j@n: "The quality of the --help option is one reason it hasn't been missed so"
j@n: "much until now! :)"
j@n: ""
j@n: " Jordan"
Hello.
I don't know where I got it from, but here's a man page for
GNU-tar-1.10 (not the recent version, but may be it helps):
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