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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Missing man page for 'tar'
Date: 2 Jun 1994 11:14:44 +0200
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jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes:
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?
>It has not been written, but Andreas keeps promising.. :-)
Hmm, but if i remember well, the next major version of GNU tar (1.12)
has been announced by the GNU folks to have a man page. Maybe it's
not in -mandoc format, but better than none.
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