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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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Subject: tar man page ( was Re: tar --help)
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> 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.

A tar man page exists in the -current sources and will be in future
FreeBSD releases.


Nate