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Re: No manual entry for tar?
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, ffes at users dot sourceforge dot net
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:56:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: No manual entry for tar?
- References: <45C9A860.407@users.sourceforge.net>
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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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