Most Gnu programs use Texinfo for their manuals. Most of them also have a nice
online webpage introducting the documentation, such as:
https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/
I rather like seeing this in the Gnu livery and the coda at the foot of the page
gives it a nice professional lookin
> So -p is more than just "preserve modification time"?!?
At least on my GNU tar ...
-p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions
extract information about file permissions (default for superuser)
;-)
> That's a new one on me.
One never stops learning.
Norbert
arn...@skeeve.com writes:
>> Aharon Robbins writes:
>>
>> > Something's messed up somewhere. Ubuntu 12.04:
>> >
>> >$ umask 022
>> >$ tar -xpzf /usr/local/src/Gnu/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz
>
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> You explicitly told tar to ignore umask. No surprise.
>
> So -p is more tha
> Aharon Robbins writes:
>
> > Something's messed up somewhere. Ubuntu 12.04:
> >
> > $ umask 022
> > $ tar -xpzf /usr/local/src/Gnu/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> You explicitly told tar to ignore umask. No surprise.
So -p is more than just "preserve modification time"?!
