Hi. While going through parts of the tar manual I found some mistakes (or so they seem to me). The version of the manual I read is labeled as "version 1.22, 5 March 2009" and is located on http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html
My native language is not English, so I could be wrong about a couple of these. Thank you for a great program and manual. My best regards. Victor Villa ------------- - In section 2.7, inside the Tutorial Introduction to tar, old-style options are used during an example but in that part of the manual they're still not explained, just barely mentioned. The problem is that although the command is correct, just in section 2.6.5 where short forms were introduced it is explained that the character just after the -f option will be taken as the archive name and an example is given where the command "tar -cfv collection.tar..." would probably not produce the expected result. This use of the old-style options could lead to newcomers to tar (like me) would think the command is wrong altogether, or confuse the old-style option with a short form and think the manual made the mistake it just warned about. $ tar cfv archive /etc/mail tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /etc/mail/ /etc/mail/sendmail.cf /etc/mail/aliases $ tar tf archive etc/mail/ etc/mail/sendmail.cf etc/mail/aliases - In section 3.1, I think there's a missing "be": "Some errors are such that it would not (be) meaningful, or at least risky, to continue processing: tar then aborts processing immediately." - In section 3.2, it is mentioned that there are two lists of four operations each when in reality they have 3 and 5 operations: "(two lists of four operations each may be found at The Three Most Frequently Used Operations and The Five Advanced tar Operations)" - In the following sentence from section 3.7, I think the second "if" should be an "is": "As of now, if the archive if (is) properly terminated with a NUL block, the reading of the file may stop before end of file is met..." - In this sentence from section 4.5, I think "has" should be "as": "making different members appear has (as) having similar names through the side-effect of name truncation"
