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Subject: [PATCH] a trivial bug in tar.1
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>Number:         7809
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] a trivial bug in tar.1
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep  2 05:40:00 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue Sep 8 20:03:06 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Tue Sep  8 20:05:19 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Amakawa Shuhei
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Univ. of Tokyo
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	`-' of -A should not be written as is in the source.

>How-To-Repeat:

	man tar

>Fix:
	
--- tar.1.orig	Wed Sep  2 21:00:20 1998
+++ tar.1	Wed Sep  2 20:59:18 1998
@@ -429,6 +429,8 @@
 feature does not work like historical tar programs, and is probably
 untrustworthy.
 .Pp
-The -A command should work to join an arbitrary number of tar archives
+The
+.Fl A
+command should work to join an arbitrary number of tar archives
 together, but it does not; attempting to do so leaves the
 end-of-archive blocks in place for the second and subsequent archives.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkoshy 
State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 8 20:03:06 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in rev 1.17 of "src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1", thanks! 
>Unformatted:
