diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html
index e8359f21a..d846ec01e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html
@@ -136,6 +136,20 @@ attributes
     are prefixed with that path in the archive.</td>
     <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">fullpath</td>
+    <td valign="top">If the fullpath attribute is set, the file in the fileset
+    is written with that path in the archive. The prefix attribute, if specified, is
+    ignored. It is an error to have more than one file specified in
+    such a fileset.</td>
+    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">preserveLeadingSlashes</td>
+    <td valign="top">Indicates whether leading `/'s should
+    be preserved in the file names. Default is <code>false</code>.</td>
+    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
+  </tr>
 </table>
 
 <h3>Examples</h3>
@@ -152,6 +166,30 @@ it.</p>
 in the <code>${dist}</code> directory. Files in the directory <code>mydocs</code>,
 or files with the name <code>todo.html</code> are excluded.</p>
 
+<pre>
+&lt;tar destfile=&quot;${basedir}/docs.tar&quot;&gt;
+  &lt;tarfileset dir=&quot;${dir.src}/docs&quot;
+              fullpath=&quot;/usr/doc/ant/README&quot;
+              preserveLeadingSlashes=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
+    &lt;include name=&quot;readme.txt&quot;/&gt;
+  &lt;/tarfileset&gt;
+  &lt;tarfileset dir=&quot;${dir.src}/docs&quot;
+              prefix=&quot;/usr/doc/ant&quot;
+              preserveLeadingSlashes=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
+    &lt;include name=&quot;*.html&quot;/&gt;
+  &lt;/tarfileset&gt;
+&lt;/tar&gt;</pre>
+
+<p>
+  Writes the file <code>docs/readme.txt</code> as
+  <code>/usr/doc/ant/README</code> into the archive. All
+  <code>*.html</code> files in the <code>docs</code> directory are
+  prefixed by <code>/usr/doc/ant</code>, so for example
+  <code>docs/index.html</code> is written as
+  <code>/usr/doc/ant/index.html</code> to the archive.
+</p>
+
+
 <pre>&lt;tar longfile=&quot;gnu&quot;
      destfile=&quot;${dist.base}/${dist.name}-src.tar&quot; &gt;
   &lt;tarfileset dir=&quot;${dist.name}/..&quot; mode=&quot;755&quot; username=&quot;ant&quot; group=&quot;ant&quot;&gt;