--- tar.1-unpatched	2012-07-25 12:42:08.536156704 -0400
+++ tar.1	2012-07-25 12:42:18.660156517 -0400
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 .Nd The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm tar
-.Oo Fl Oc Cm A Fl \-catenate \-concatenate Cm \||\| c Fl \-create Cm \||\| d Fl \-diff \-compare Cm \||\| Fl \-delete Cm \||\| r Fl \-append Cm \||\| t Fl \-list Cm \||\| Fl \-test\-label Cm \||\| u Fl \-update Cm \||\| x Fl \-extract \-get
+.Ar function
 .Op Ar options
-.Op Ar pathname ...
+.Op Cm - \||\| Ar pathname ...
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Nm Tar
 stores and extracts files from a tape or disk archive.
@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@
 .It Fl \-index\-file Ns \= Ns Ar FILE
 send verbose output to FILE
 .It Fl j , Fl \-bzip2
-
+use bzip2 compression/decompression
 .It Fl J , Fl \-xz
-
+use gzip compression/decompression
 .It Fl k , Fl \-keep\-old\-files
 don't replace existing files when extracting
 .It Fl K , Fl \-starting\-file Ar MEMBER-NAME
@@ -171,11 +171,11 @@
 .It Fl \-level Ns \= Ns Ar NUMBER
 dump level for created listed-incremental archive
 .It Fl \-lzip
-
+use zip compressiopn/decompression
 .It Fl \-lzma
-
+use zma compression.decompression
 .It Fl \-lzop
-
+use zop compression.decompression
 .It Fl m , Fl \-touch
 don't extract file modified time
 .It Fl M , Fl \-multi\-volume
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
 .It Fl \-no\-same\-owner
 extract files as yourself (default for ordinary users)
 .It Fl \-no\-same\-permissions
-apply the user's umask when extracting permissions from the archive (default for ordinary users)
+use the user's umask when extracting permissions from the archive (default for ordinary users)
 .It Fl \-no\-seek
 archive is not seekable
 .It Fl \-show\-defaults
@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@
 .It Fl X , Fl \-exclude\-from Ar FILE
 exclude patterns listed in FILE
 .It Fl z , Fl \-gzip , Fl \-gunzip Fl \-ungzip
-
+use gzip compression/decompression
 .It Fl Z , Fl \-compress , Fl \-uncompress
-
+use Lempel-Ziv compression/decompression
 .El
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
 The behavior of tar is controlled by the following environment variables,
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@
 is not specified.
 If this environment variable is unset, use stdin or stdout instead.
 .It Ev TAR_LONGLINK_100
+Undocumented.
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.