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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak!brian From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Missing man page for 'tar' Date: 4 Jun 94 05:54:28 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 22 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <BRIAN.94Jun4055428@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <PHILS.94May30223802@satori.tv.tek.com> <JKH.94May31124832@nx.ilo.dec.com> <2sk7u4INNiiv@bonnie.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: j@uriah.sax.de's message of 2 Jun 1994 11:14:44 +0200 In article <2sk7u4INNiiv@bonnie.sax.de> j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: 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. tar --help is pretty impressive too. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....