Many years ago a Debian user pointed out that the tar info page has conflicting definitions for the -o option. I just confirmed that this is still true in 1.30. Please accept my apologies for letting this rot in our bug tracking system for so long before passing it along. More details in the bug log at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302886 Bdale
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