From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 04:00:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA23591 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 May 1995 04:00:11 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA23525 for ; Sun, 28 May 1995 03:59:58 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA04177; Sun, 28 May 1995 18:59:52 +0800 Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 18:59:51 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Julian Elischer cc: "Mike O'Brien" , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tar --help In-Reply-To: <199505240320.UAA21010@ref.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 May 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I'm SURE we've had tar man-pages written before.. We do: TAR(1) UNIX Reference Manual TAR(1) NAME tar - tape archiver; manipulate "tar" archive files SYNOPSIS tar [[-]] [bundled-options] [[gnu-style-flags]] [tarfile] [blocksize] [exclude-file] [filenames] [-C directory-name] [...] HISTORY The tar format has a rich history, dating back to Sixth Edition UNIX. The current implementation of tar is the GNU implementation, which origi- nated as the public-domain tar written by John Gilmore. AUTHORS A cast of thousands, including [as listed in the ChangeLog file in the source] John Gilmore (author of original public domain version), Jay Fen- lason (first GNU author), Joy Kendall, Jim Kingdon, David J. MacKenzie, Michael I Bushnell, Noah Friedman, and innumerable others who have con- tributed fixes and additions. Obtained by the FreeBSD group from the NetBSD 1.0 release. [...] FreeBSD 6 August 1994 5 -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org