From 317fbb9d5f33d8dff837ac6354b917940aa2e8d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:41:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Removed references to the obsolete command line options. --- doc/tar.texi | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index e27f5fc..5a1f920 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -7775,11 +7775,7 @@ device, invocation. @end itemize -In previous versions of @acronym{GNU} @command{tar}, the -@samp{--compress-block} option (or even older: -@samp{--block-compress}) was necessary to reblock compressed archives. -It is now a dummy option just asking not to be used, and otherwise -ignored. If the output goes directly to a local disk, and not through +If the output goes directly to a local disk, and not through stdout, then the last write is not extended to a full record size. Otherwise, reblocking occurs. Here are a few other remarks on this topic: -- 2.44.0