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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] multi volume tar
Message-ID: <DJM.92Nov26004606@frob.eng.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 05:46:06 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland
In-Reply-To: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com's message of 26 Nov 92 04:12:50 GMT
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Yep, prior to GNU tar 1.11, the help message went to stderr.
386BSD comes with 1.10.
You might want to get 1.11.1, which has a lot of other bug fixes too.