X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45C9CC8C.6000407@byu.net> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:56:44 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, ffes@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: No manual entry for tar? References: <45C9A860.407@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <45C9A860.407@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Frank Fesevur on 2/7/2007 3:22 AM: > Hi, > > It is normal that there is no man page for tar, or is this a package error? Normal. The upstream tar maintainer doesn't go to the efforts of creating one in his tarball, so I don't put forth any additional effort to make one myself. The GNU Coding Standards recommend the info format ('info tar') over the man format, and although many GNU packages provide both, there is no obligation that they must. Also try using 'tar --help'. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin tar maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFycyM84KuGfSFAYARAtxYAKCNWIad5z8NL5KHTLygm9NNOYmMiwCeKesH 00Bgs9xJqvrTCF+2ccyVepo= =8Xue -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/