On Wed, 9 Mar 1994, Mike Long wrote:

> Few of the GNU packages used in NetBSD have complete, up-to-date man
> pages.  I think it would be a good idea to include the texinfo
> documentation for all of the GNU packages used by NetBSD in the source
> distribution (*not* the binary distribution).  Then users can get the
> GNU texinfo-3.1 package (which builds out-of-the-box) and make info
> pages, which can be read using Emacs or the standalone info reader
> that comes with texinfo-3.1.  Also, users who have TeX on their
> systems can create printed documentation or view the output with xdvi.

GNU tar (to my knowledge) does not come with a man page...We have GNU tar 
on some HP-UX boxen here and it has no man page either...It's no big deal...

tar --help works pretty well...:-)

Later..

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