Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:59:37 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner <dpk@notreal.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: gnu/8679: tar man page Message-ID: <199811132259.OAA24542@notreal.com>
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>Number: 8679 >Category: gnu >Synopsis: tar man page should be updated >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 13 15:10:00 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: David Kirchner >Organization: Notreal Communications >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 >Environment: >Description: tar's man page could be updated to let people know that a '-' is *required* if they want to use the GNU-style long options in a command line. >How-To-Repeat: tar cvf foo.tar --exclude foo/BigFile foo will not work, while: tar -cvf foo.tar --exclude foo/BigFile foo will properly exclude foo/BigFile from the tar file. The same goes for the other long options I tried, such as '--fast-read'. >Fix: The man page should be updated, probably near the FUNCTIONS section, with something like: "A - is required before the bundled-options if you are going to be using any of the GNU-style long options." It could probably be worded better of course, but you get the idea. :-) >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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