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I remember the first time I looked for "man tar" in SuSE. Thought I was too stupid to find it. In reality SuSE had not included it. (at least not on 8 installs with looking for it)
This kind of stupidity along with a stupid "dhclient" and a european "whois" send me closer to RedHat and their ilk.
Hey tone down a bit please. Fact is GNU has no man page for tar. They discontinued man pages in favour of their much more powerful info stuff, which is a crosslinked contruction much like html except you don't need a buggy crashing slooow security-problematic bloatpiece to view it. As Lenz pointed out, "info tar" will give you the basics. I find "tkinfo tar" to be much better, and hear that the bloatmacs people are also quite enthusiastic about info file reading. All on your SuSE CDs (tkinfo far outdated on SuSE 6.2 - dead-easy to upgrade yourself). "tar --help" only gives you a summary not good enough for understanding. As far as Red Hat goes, they ship a man page from 1993. SuSE decided not to ship out-of-date junk instead. Having bad unknowingly is worse than having nothing. Volker -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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