On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
[mumble]
> I most certainly DID try doing "man tar" and found the very fact I
> pointed out clearly stated therein. I've just done so again, and I
> quote from the tar manpage:
>
> Q> OTHER OPTIONS
> Q> :
> Q> -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F
> Q> use archive file or device F (default /dev/rmt0)
>
> Perhaps you can advise whether that comment is in YOUR tar manpage as
> well?
>
That's in most any tar manpage, and is just plain wrong. I don't think
I've ever seen a GNU tar where that was true (a SunOS 4.x tar yes, but not
a GNU tar). tar --help will tell you the default for your tar (at the
end of the paragraph about not doing posix archives, starting "*This*
`tar'").
Bryn
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