Re: the description of -A / --concatenate is inconsistent

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi Sergey,

Op 01-05-2023 om 19:25 schreef Sergey Poznyakoff:

As a matter of fact, both are appended.  You can easily confirm that if
you used the -i option when testing the resulting archive, [...]

Ah.  Indeed.  I didn't read far enough in the man page.  :/

But...  In the texi document it says: "--concatenate removes the
end-of-archive marker from the target archive before *each* new
archive is appended."  (Emphasis added.)  And it mentions the use
of --ignore-zeros only when `cat` has been used.

That being said, I agree that this mode of operation is confusing and
had better be fixed.

Thanks.

Benno

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