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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:40:54 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Change tar to GNU
Message-ID:  <4216B546.5070103@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <86k6p5fng8.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050217192913.38170c-100000@fledge.watson.org> <4214F3C2.4020102@alumni.rice.edu> <20050217195547.GA33893@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <42162D51.6020304@freebsd.org> <86k6p5fng8.fsf@xps.des.no>

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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



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