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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir

From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <gray at Mirddin dot farlep dot net>
To: "Eric Blake" <ericblake at comcast dot net>
Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, <bug-tar at gnu dot org>, "VÃ¡clav Haisman" <V dot Haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:10:48 EEST
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir
References: <101120051645.6708.434BEC350000F2FD00001A3422073000330A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

Eric Blake <ericblake@comcast.net> wrote:

> [Forwarding to the bug-tar list; originally reported on cygwin]
> 
> > My info tar mentions --overwrite-dir switch but the tar executable
> > itself doesn't seem to know anything about it. Is the documentation out
> > of sync with the executable?
[..]
> It appears to be a bug in the info documentation.

Yes, it is. Thank you for reporting.

Regards,
Sergey

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