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To: "Eric Blake" <ericblake AT comcast DOT net>
From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <gray AT Mirddin DOT farlep DOT net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:10:48 EEST
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir
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Eric Blake <ericblake AT comcast DOT net> wrote:

> [Forwarding to the bug-tar list; originally reported on cygwin]
> 
> > My info tar mentions --overwrite-dir switch but the tar executable
> > itself doesn't seem to know anything about it. Is the documentation out
> > of sync with the executable?
[..]
> It appears to be a bug in the info documentation.

Yes, it is. Thank you for reporting.

Regards,
Sergey

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