Subject: misc/2990: bug in tar.1
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/03/1996 00:09:26
>Number: 2990
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: bug in tar.1
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 2 07:20:00 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: SAITOH Masanobu
>Organization:
>Release: latest -current
>Environment:
System: NetBSD ifree.spa.is.uec.ac.jp 1.2B NetBSD 1.2B (IFREE) #24: Thu Nov 28 01:41:37 JST 1996 msaitoh@ifree.spa.is.uec.ac.jp:/var/sources/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/IFREE i386
>Description:
See below.
>How-To-Repeat:
man tar
>Fix:
Apply following patch:
--- tar.1.orig Thu Mar 14 21:15:38 1996
+++ tar.1 Mon Dec 2 23:59:21 1996
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
.It Fl -listed-incremental Ar file
Create/list/extract new GNU-format incremental backup.
.It Fl h
-.it Fl -dereference
+.It Fl -dereference
Don't write symlinks as symlinks; write the data of the files they name.
.It Fl i
.It Fl -ignore-zeros
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: