man page for changed tar
utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!solomon
utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!solomon
Sun Apr 4 09:25:54 AEST 1982
Here are the changes for the man page corresponding to the changes
to tar that I mailed earlier to net.sources:
*** /usr/man/man1/tar.1 Mon May 11 02:00:45 1981
--- tar.l Sun Apr 4 09:23:43 1982
***************
*** 1,4
! .TH TAR 1 4/1/81
.UC 4
.SH NAME
tar \- tape archiver
--- 1,4 -----
! .TH TAR UW
.UC 4
.SH NAME
tar \- tape archiver
***************
*** 148,153
to not restore the modification times.
The mod time
will be the time of extraction.
.PP
Previous restrictions dealing with
.IR tar 's
--- 148,159 -----
to not restore the modification times.
The mod time
will be the time of extraction.
+ .TP 10
+ .B s
+ If the tape is not positioned at the start of a file, skip the current block
+ and try again at the start of the next one, instead of giving up.
+ This modifier is useful for recovering information from a damaged tape.
+ Use tskip(I) to skip over the bad parts.
.PP
Previous restrictions dealing with
.IR tar 's
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