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Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set



On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:32AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> 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).

It was in the (now removed, GFDL issues) info manual, not in the
manpage, I believe.


Michael



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