On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:54:23PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote: > > The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a > > environment variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help. > > But, unsurprisingly, the tar manual does (under the --file option). Odd, not on my system (Debian unstable, two days behind). Greetings, Torsten