Re: man tar

2020-10-04 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:05:48PM +, Roderick wrote: > > We read there: > > " > -f archive > > Filename where the archive is stored. Defaults to /dev/rst0. If set to > hyphen (?-?) standard output is used. See also the TAPE environment > variable. > > "" > > Well, hyphen (?-?)

Re: man tar

2020-10-04 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 04/10/2020 16:05, Roderick wrote: We read there: " -f archive Filename where the archive is stored. Defaults to /dev/rst0. If set to hyphen (‘-’) standard output is used. See also the TAPE environment variable. "" Well, hyphen (‘-’) may also mean stdin as expected, but it

Re: man tar

2020-10-04 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Recent versions of tar(1) on {Free,Net}BSD stipulate: [...] As far as I know it was always so, as it is also in OpenBSD. But that is a very interesting issue on history of the tar command. I see only a documentation problem. Rod.

man tar

2020-10-04 Thread Roderick
We read there: " -f archive Filename where the archive is stored. Defaults to /dev/rst0. If set to hyphen (‘-’) standard output is used. See also the TAPE environment variable. "" Well, hyphen (‘-’) may also mean stdin as expected, but it seems not to be mentioned/insinuated on