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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> writes:
> 
>>Some people are more familiar with -I (which is a
>>synonym for -T).  Hmmm...  Looks like --null never
>>got onto the manpage.  I'll fix that.
> 
> 
> -0 should be an alias for --null...
> 
> DES

Are you sure about that? Isn't there
a traditional use of -0 as a tape
format selector?

 From gtar.1:
      -[0-7][lmh]             Specify tape drive and density.

Tim