--- tar-1.14/tar.1.orig 2004-05-22 15:37:01.300876240 +0200 +++ tar-1.14/tar.1 2004-05-22 15:37:46.993929840 +0200 @@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ .TP .I filename1 [ filename2, ... filenameN ] .TP -.I directory1 [ directory2, ...directoryN ] +.I directory1 [ directory2, ... directoryN ] .SH DESCRIPTION .LP This manual page documents the GNU version of -.B tar -, an archiving program designed to store and extract files from +.B tar , +an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a -.IR tarfile. +.IR tarfile . A .IR tarfile may be made on a tape drive, however, it is also common to write a -.IR tarfile +.I tarfile to a normal file. The first argument to .B tar @@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ create archive with volume name NAME .TP .B \-\-version -print tar program version number +print +.B tar +program version number .TP .B \-\-volno\-file F keep track of current volume (of a multi-volume archive) in F @@ -306,7 +308,7 @@ The maintainer of tar falls into this category. This man page is neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack of a man page gets -reported as a bug in our defect tracking system. +reported as a bug in their defect tracking system. If you really want to understand tar, then you should run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs.