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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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David Dawes wrote:
> 
> So, it is behaving as documented, and the FreeBSD man page isn't accurate:
> 
You are right. I never read the complete tar manpage, but only the
example (which was wrong). The "-" is optional as Chuck Robey noted.

The real problem, anyway, is that pax should be used instead of "tar"
when building packages or preparing the distribution, to be more
standard comformant. I think the ports tree uses pax anyway.

Pedro. 


> 
> David