Re: [Bug-tar] tar man page

[Joerg Schilling]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Karl,
>
> > We just received a report on webmasters that some man page for tar
> > refers to the wrong url http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/man.
>
> The errors like that are reported every now and then. There are lots of
> `man' pages for GNU tar written by package maintainers or distributors.
>  
> > It seems that the tar distribution doesn't include a man page.
>
> There is no man page. The only and authoritative source of
> documentation is tar.texi and documents profuced from it.

Man pages are a POSIX standard. I know about a lot projects that
write documentation in a way that at least allows a conversion 
into man pages (e.g. with pod2man). If there are many problems with home grown
man pages, just create a real one.....



Jörg

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