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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5R missing man page for tar?
Date: 7 Jul 1994 06:37:10 GMT
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John A. LaCour III (jal@MCS.COM) wrote:
: I've installed FreeBSD 1.1.5R and there didn't seem to be a man page for
: tar included.  Just wondering if its me or it was lost on accident.

Seems to me it's 'built in' to tar.

do a: 'tar --help' and you get a list of all the switches and results.

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