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Re: No manual entry for tar?


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According to Frank Fesevur on 2/7/2007 3:22 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> It is normal that there is no man page for tar, or is this a package error?

Normal.  The upstream tar maintainer doesn't go to the efforts of creating
one in his tarball, so I don't put forth any additional effort to make one
myself.  The GNU Coding Standards recommend the info format ('info tar')
over the man format, and although many GNU packages provide both, there is
no obligation that they must.  Also try using 'tar --help'.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin tar maintainer
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