From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 14:04:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA15924 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 May 1995 14:04:48 -0700 Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (spaz@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA15910 for ; Tue, 23 May 1995 14:04:45 -0700 Received: by saul5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA16198; Tue, 23 May 95 14:03:25 -0700 X-Sender: spaz@saul5.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 14:03:25 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: "Mike O'Brien" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 'tar' man page missing? In-Reply-To: <199505232038.NAA13487@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi try tar -help | more tar is one of those lower brain ancestral applications that acts somewhat differently then the typical unix app, but it is so intensely useful that everybody puts up with it's idiosyncracies ( and now people are saying "idiosyncracies? what idiosyncracies?"...which absolutely proves my point ) and just gets use to it's maddening syntax. I *always* have to read the help file whenever i want to compress something to a file... On Tue, 23 May 1995, Mike O'Brien wrote: > My 2.0R release doesn't seem to have a man page for 'tar'. I tried > looking in FreeBSD-current/src/share/man/man1 but there are only about > four files there on ftp.cdrom.com...I don't know where the rest of the > man pages are kept. > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life