Last updated: 06:08AM 12/03/07
The following is from the man page for tar on Ubuntu 7.10
The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. Unfortunately, the info document describing tar is licensed under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which violates the Debian Free Software Guidelines. As a result, the info documentation for tar is not included in the Debian package. If you want to read the complete documentation for GNU tar, please refer to the online version at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/index.html.