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[Bug-tar] Bugs in the GNU tar manual


From: Gong Jie
Subject: [Bug-tar] Bugs in the GNU tar manual
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:07:56 +0800

Hi all,

I was reading GNU tar manual for a while, and found some bugs.  This
is against the latest stable version, version 1.21, 30 October 2008.

In section 4.1, "Basic GNU tar Operations", the paragraphs for
"--extract" and "--list" seems no relationship with the title of this
section.  I assume these words are mistaken copied from other section.

And in section 4.2.1 "The Five Advanced tar Operations", I found the
following problem.
~~~snip~~~
`--append'
`-r'
     Add new entries to an archive that already exists.

`--update'
`-r'        <-- This should be `-u'.  It is the short option style for
`--update'
     Add more recent copies of archive members to the end of an
     archive, if they exist.
~~~snip~~~

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Thanks for your time, and I am looking forward these bugs can be fixed.

-- 
Regards,

GONG Jie (龚颉)
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