The man page :
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SE&format=html
The 'bundles flags' option is for backwards compatibility. Examples are shown in the '@archive' section like this : 'tar -c -f'. Somewhere (I can't find it now) it says that the parameters for the flags have to be in the same order as the flags, but I can't find anywhere that it says that the last flag befor the archive name has to be the 'f' flag, hence my creation of the '-z' file (ie. tar -c -f -z arch.tz *.dbf -> file called -z).
If the man pages were a Wiki I'd edit the line for -f to say that it should be the last argument before the archive file name.
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