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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] multi volume tar
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Date: 26 Nov 92 04:12:50 GMT
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In article <1992Nov25.175910.23121@athena.mit.edu>,
vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes:

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> 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?

It is being sent to stderr.  Try

   tar +help 2>&1 | more


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