Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:31:01 +0900 (JST) From: amakawa@sf.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/7809: [PATCH] a trivial bug in tar.1 Message-ID: <199809021231.VAA01893@nebula.sf.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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>Number: 7809 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [PATCH] a trivial bug in tar.1 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Sep 2 05:40:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Amakawa Shuhei >Organization: Univ. of Tokyo >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 >Environment: >Description: `-' of -A should not be written as is in the source. >How-To-Repeat: man tar >Fix: --- tar.1.orig Wed Sep 2 21:00:20 1998 +++ tar.1 Wed Sep 2 20:59:18 1998 @@ -429,6 +429,8 @@ feature does not work like historical tar programs, and is probably untrustworthy. .Pp -The -A command should work to join an arbitrary number of tar archives +The +.Fl A +command should work to join an arbitrary number of tar archives together, but it does not; attempting to do so leaves the end-of-archive blocks in place for the second and subsequent archives. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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