sparse files

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:37 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > `tar' ignores the `--sparse' (`-S') option when reading an archive.
> 
> I do not see this in my tar's man page. I use tar 1.15. I specify
> --sparse when tar creates and extracts the archive.

You haven't mentioned what distribution your using. I'm using Debian & my man 
page for tar includes this disclaimer:

> The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents 
instead. The maintainer of tar falls into this category. This man page is 
neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging 
of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack of a man page 
gets reported as a bug in our defect tracking system. 
> 
> If you really want to understand tar, then you should run info and read the 
tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs.

The above quote came from the info documentation.

cmr
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