Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 17:11:04 -0400 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: tar -l is now (intentionally) broken. Message-ID: <20040803211104.GA56113@heceta.db.net> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> References: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:05:10PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote: > >And it's worth noting that minor incompatibilities like this just > >serve to annoy new users (which usually means users from linux-land). > >For example, it's annoying that BSD man can't read a manpage by > >specifying the full path to a filename (eg, man ./foo.1). > > Yeah... Why is that? It seems like it would be awfully useful to read man > pages without installing them. Also, though I haven't looked at the source, > it _seems_ like it would be really easy to do. What's the drawback? Yeah, and I am going to be really annoyed when tar -zcvf doesn't work too. - Diane Bruce
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