Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

[On 30 Sep, @ 15:09, Robert wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Fwd: Hdup feat ..."]
> Sorry, this wasn't clear. You just put ".nobackup" in the top level 
> directory you don't want backed up. Each subdirectoy doesn't need the 
> ".nobackup" file. Rather, all subdirectories will automatically *not* be 
> backed up by tar.

I didn't know this.. so the new tar actually look at a .nobackup
file?

Do you have any documentation on this behavior?

grtz Miek