Re: [Bug-tar] Need a couple of more complex examples

[Karl Berry]

      tar -cvzf foo-1.25.tar.gz --posix foo-1.25

I don't know about using --posix in particular(*), but I concur with
Dr. Kirkby that it would be useful to show one example of mixing short
and long options.  What comes up most often in my work is

  tar -czf foo.tar.gz --exclude=somebigfile .

karl

(*) my experience with TeX Live has shown that --posix is definitely not
portable in practice on current systems (various Solaris and/or BSD
and/or Windows tars fail).  Therefore I don't think something as visible
as a --help example should use --posix.  --ustar, on the other hand,
seems to work.