Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system

From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet_at_coitusmentis.info>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:16:05 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2005-03-28, Frank Mayhar scribbled these
curious markings:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> bsdtar supports -C..
>> 
>> what in the above line doesn't work?
>
> I think he just wants that example to live in the bsdtar manpage, as it
> (apparently) did in the gtar manpage.

It doesn't?

As in /usr/src/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1, rev 1.20.2.2:

.It Fl C Ar directory
In c and r mode, this changes the directory before adding
the following files.
In x mode, change directories after opening the archive
but before extracting entries from the archive.


Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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Received on Mon Mar 28 2005 - 16:18:16 UTC

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