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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:36:17 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gnu/4385: un- and unclearly documented options in tar
Message-ID:  <199708262136.XAA18328@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <199708260110.SAA26108@hub.freebsd.org> from "FreeBSD-gnats@FreeBSD.ORG" at "Aug 25, 97 06:10:01 pm"

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> >Category:       gnu
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> >Synopsis:       un- and unclearly documented options in tar
> >Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 25 18:10:01 PDT 1997

Unfortunately, when reading on my xterm some errors that I had
introduced slipped through.  Fixing two more inconsistencies I
attached a patch to the already patched (patch from gnu/4385)
tar.1, again relative to /usr/src.

Sorry,
Robert


--- gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1.lvl1	Tue Aug 26 22:55:53 1997
+++ gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1	Tue Aug 26 23:25:58 1997
@@ -131,5 +131,7 @@
 .It Fl b
 .It Fl -block-size Ar number
-Sets the block size for reading or writing to N 512-byte blocks.
+Sets the block size for reading or writing to
+.Ar number
+* 512-byte blocks.
 .It Fl B
 .It Fl -read-full-blocks
@@ -194,5 +196,7 @@
 .It Fl L Ar number
 .It Fl -tape-length Ar number
-Change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes.
+Change tapes after writing 
+.Ar number
+* 1024 bytes.
 .It Fl m
 .It Fl -modification-time
@@ -254,12 +258,13 @@
 .It Fl -totals
 Prints total bytes written with
-.It Fl -create.
+.Fl -create.
 .It Fl v
 .It Fl -verbose
 Lists files written to archive with
-.It Fl -create or extracted with
-.It Fl -extract;
+.Fl -create
+or extracted with
+.Fl -extract;
 lists file protection information along with file names with
-.It Fl -list.
+.Fl -list.
 .It Fl V Ar volume-name
 .It Fl -label Ar volume-name


-- 
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