[plug] How to use tar/gtar to extract individual files

[Christian]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:09:52AM +0800, stephen wrote:
 
> Mabey someone should write some decent man Pages -
> I sure would have saved some time learning this stuff with a few
> decent examples on the man pages.

The info pages are the official source of documentation according to the
manual pages and these do indeed contain some very good examples.  Given
the GNU policy of prefering info pages over man pages then I wonder
whether it's likely anyone is going to write "decent" man pages since
all the required info is already documented.  I certainly think there
should be a manual page for each command but the style of manual pages
doesn't tend to be example or tutorial driven while this is somewhat
more common in the texinfo docs.

Regards,

Christian.