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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Missing man page for 'tar'
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 15:35:47 GMT
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In <PHILS.94May30223802@satori.tv.tek.com> phils@tv.tek.com (Phil Staub) writes:


>I seem to be missing a man page for 'tar(1)' in FreeBSD 1.1r. I
>looked down in the gnu branch of the source tree and found the
>sources, but no man page. Has it not been written? 

>Before you ask, yes, I have tried 'tar --help', and it gives me all
>the options, but I'd like a for-real man page.

Sorry: there is no tar man page for gnu tar -- the writers of gnu tar
did say that there is one under development (sometime, I think), but
nobody seems to have made the effort to write one.

Any volunteers to write a tar(1) man page?

Geoff.
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