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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] multi volume tar
Message-ID: <1f2cpeINNpoo@Germany.EU.net>
Date: 26 Nov 92 11:35:10 GMT
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In article <1992Nov25.175910.23121@athena.mit.edu>, vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:
|> [...deleted...]
|> Does anyone know why it isn't possible to pause GNU/386bsd's tar +help output
|> by piping it to more?  It's as if it's not being send stdout.  Could it be
|> going to stderr instead?

Yes.

-Bernard
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