On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:45 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote:
> It annoys me that tar doesn't have a proper man page.

I believe the maintainers are among those who prefer to provide their
documentation in the texinfo format, something not uncommon among GNU
projects. Unfortunately, most users probably don't even know the 'info'
command exists, never mind how to actually use it, so that documentation
is somewhat wasted.

Simon.

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