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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   gnu/7800: tar(1) does not recognize --gunzip option
Message-ID:  <199809011952.MAA14701@bubba.whistle.com>

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>Number:         7800
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       tar(1) does not recognize --gunzip option
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep  1 13:00:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Archie Cobbs
>Organization:
Whistle Communications, Inc.
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 2.2.6 AND -current

>Description:

	tar(1) does not recognize --gunzip option,
	though the man page lists it.

>How-To-Repeat:

	$ tar --extract --gunzip -f -
	tar: unrecognized option `--gunzip'
	tar: Unknown option.  Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options.

>Fix:

Index: tar.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.c,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -c -u -r1.13 tar.c
--- tar.c	1998/02/04 07:04:43	1.13
+++ tar.c	1998/09/01 19:52:00
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
   {"uncompress", 0, 0, 'Z'},
   {"block-compress", 0, &f_compress_block, 1},
   {"gzip", 0, 0, 'z'},
-  {"ungzip", 0, 0, 'z'},
+  {"gunzip", 0, 0, 'z'},
   {"use-compress-program", 1, 0, 18},
 
 

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