+.SH "INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE LISTS"
+.PP
+This application supplies exclude lists via the
+\fBGNU\-tar\fR
+\fB\-\-exclude\-from\fR
+option\&. This option accepts normal shell\-style wildcard expressions, using
+\fB*\fR
+to match any number of characters and
+\fB?\fR
+to match a single character\&. Character classes are represented with
+\fB[\&.\&.]\fR, which will match any of the characters in the brackets\&. Expressions can be "anchored" to the base directory of the DLE by prefixing them with "\&./"\&. Without this prefix, they will match at any directory level\&. Expressions that begin or end with a "/" will not match anything: to completely exclude a directory, do not include the trailing slash\&. Example expressions:
+.sp
+.nf
+ \&./temp\-files # exclude top\-level directory entirely
+ \&./temp\-files/ # BAD: does nothing
+ /temp\-files # BAD: does nothing
+ \&./temp\-files/* # exclude directory contents; include directory
+ temp\-files # exclude anything named "temp\-files"
+ generated\-* # exclude anything beginning with "generated\-"
+ *\&.iso # exclude ISO files
+ proxy/local/cache # exclude "cache" in dir "local" in "proxy"
+.fi
+.PP
+Similarly, include expressions are supplied to
+\fBGNU\-tar\fR\'s
+\fB\-\-files\-from\fR
+option\&. This option ordinarily does not accept any sort of wildcards, but amgtar "manually" applies glob pattern matching to include expressions with only one slash\&. The expressions must still begin with "\&./", so this effectively only allows expressions like "\&./[abc]*" or "\&./*\&.txt"\&.