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Subject: Re: tar --help
To: obrien@antares.aero.org (Mike O'Brien)
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> 	I want to thank all those who pointed out the existence of the
> 'tar --help' option.  I knew about that; I regard it as a field emergency
> manual, not documentation.  If I get the time I'll try to write up a man
> page myself, for possible inclusion in 2.1.

What, and break with tradition?!?

It seems to me that it's only GNU tar that's missing man pages - I'm
pretty sure that the other Unixes I use have man pages for tar.  Seems
to me that at least DYNIX, DYNIX/ptx, SunOS and Solaris all have them.
Of course, they don't use GNU tar, but barring any copyright
complications it might be a good place to start.