Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 163709
tar man page truncated
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:19 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Red Hat/1.0.4-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: tar man page is truncated. Most of the man page appears to be missing. Man page ends with the --use-compress-program option which itself is incomplete. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-pages-1.67-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man tar 2. Scroll through the man page until the bottom Additional info:
tar man page is part of tar package.
Created attachment 118545 [details] new manpage How do u like this man page? It's used in devel and FC4.
It points one to the "info tar" (I didn't know about that) and explains why it's not a complete description of GNU tar. Good job! Caught one typo -- "has since been loving updated" -- "loving" should be "lovingly.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0336.html