Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar man page
On Tuesday 10 September 2013 01:32:17 Connor Behan wrote: > On 09/09/13 03:40 AM, R.G. wrote: > > Could you please insert some multivolume examples in man page? > > I thought tar only came with an info page upstream. The tar man page you > are looking at was probably written by Debian or some other distro who > thinks "info only" is a bad idea. correct. each distro is maintaining its own man page because the GNU tar upstream won't accept including one. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar man page
On 09/09/13 03:40 AM, R.G. wrote: > Hi ! > > Recently i have had to extract a multivolume tar file. It was my first > time doing such things and of course i opened tar man page. The > possibility of sending data for tar through standard input (via < and > >) was not mentioned there (i think it should be). > But more important is that there was no description of how to point > multiple files as an argument (e.g. for extracting a multivolume > archive). > > Could you please insert some multivolume examples in man page? > I thought tar only came with an info page upstream. The tar man page you are looking at was probably written by Debian or some other distro who thinks "info only" is a bad idea. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[Bug-tar] GNU tar man page
Hi ! Recently i have had to extract a multivolume tar file. It was my first time doing such things and of course i opened tar man page. The possibility of sending data for tar through standard input (via < and >) was not mentioned there (i think it should be). But more important is that there was no description of how to point multiple files as an argument (e.g. for extracting a multivolume archive). Could you please insert some multivolume examples in man page?
