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diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1 b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1 index 2c96114..a0acea4 100644 --- a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1 +++ b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1 @@ -350,6 +350,42 @@ Note that, unlike other implementations, this implementation recognizes gzip compression automatically when reading archives. .El +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +The following environment variables affect the execution of +.Nm : +.Bl -tag -width ".Ev BLOCKSIZE" +.It Ev LANG +The locale to use. +See +.Xr environ 7 +for more information. +.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT +If this environment variable is defined, the +.Fl l +option will be interpreted in accordance with +.St -p1003.1-96 . +.It Ev TAPE +The default tape device. +The +.Fl f +option overrides this. +.It Ev TZ +The timezone to use when displaying dates. +See +.Xr environ 7 +for more information. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width ".Ev BLOCKSIZE" +.It Pa /dev/sa0 +The default tape device, if not overridden by the +.Ev TAPE +environment variable or the +.Fl f +option. +.El +.Sh EXIT STATUS +.Ex -std .Sh EXAMPLES The following creates a new archive called @@ -389,42 +425,6 @@ Finally, it will switch to the directory and add .Pa foo2 to the output archive. -.Sh EXIT STATUS -.Ex -std -.Sh ENVIRONMENT -The following environment variables affect the execution of -.Nm : -.Bl -tag -width ".Ev BLOCKSIZE" -.It Ev LANG -The locale to use. -See -.Xr environ 7 -for more information. -.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT -If this environment variable is defined, the -.Fl l -option will be interpreted in accordance with -.St -p1003.1-96 . -.It Ev TAPE -The default tape device. -The -.Fl f -option overrides this. -.It Ev TZ -The timezone to use when displaying dates. -See -.Xr environ 7 -for more information. -.El -.Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width ".Ev BLOCKSIZE" -.It Pa /dev/sa0 -The default tape device, if not overridden by the -.Ev TAPE -environment variable or the -.Fl f -option. -.El .Sh COMPATIBILITY The bundled-arguments format is supported for compatibility with historic implementations. @@ -577,6 +577,22 @@ for tar and the current POSIX specification for pax. The ustar and pax interchange file formats are defined by .St -p1003.1-2001 for the pax command. +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm tar +command appeared in Seventh Edition Unix. +There have been numerous other implementations, +many of which extended the file format. +John Gilmore's +.Nm pdtar +public-domain implementation (circa November, 1987) +was quite influential, and formed the basis of GNU tar. +GNU tar was included as the standard system tar +in FreeBSD beginning with FreeBSD 1.0. +.Pp +This is a complete re-implementation based on the +.Xr libarchive 3 +library. .Sh BUGS POSIX and GNU violently disagree about the meaning of the .Fl l @@ -664,19 +680,3 @@ formats store hardlink information.) .Pp There are alternative long options for many of the short options that are deliberately not documented. -.Sh HISTORY -A -.Nm tar -command appeared in Seventh Edition Unix. -There have been numerous other implementations, -many of which extended the file format. -John Gilmore's -.Nm pdtar -public-domain implementation (circa November, 1987) -was quite influential, and formed the basis of GNU tar. -GNU tar was included as the standard system tar -in FreeBSD beginning with FreeBSD 1.0. -.Pp -This is a complete re-implementation based on the -.Xr libarchive 3 -library. |