Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - NEWS

   1 Current Version: 1.11.
   2
   3 User-visible changes since 1.10:
   4
   5 o Many bug fixes
   6
   7 o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
   8
   9 o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
  10   will eventually be removed.
  11
  12 o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
  13   and causes -C to be ignored.
  14
  15 o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
  16   they are added to the archive.
  17
  18 o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
  19   the exit status.
  20
  21 o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
  22   being read or written.
  23
  24 o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
  25   omitted from the archive.
  26
  27 o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
  28   end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
  29
  30 o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
  31   not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
  32
  33 o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
  34   the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
  35   around to the beginning.
  36
  37 o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
  38   `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
  39   then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
  40
  41 o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
  42   original values after dumping the file.
  43
  44 o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
  45   to dump.
  46
  47 o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
  48   modification and access times.
  49
  50 o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
  51   precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
  52   longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
  53   long names to work.
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  56
  57 User-visible changes since 1.09:
  58
  59 Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.
  60 Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
  61
  62 -g is now +incremental
  63 -G is now +listed-incremental
  64
  65 Sparse files now work correctly.
  66
  67 +volume is now called +label.
  68
  69 +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
  70 +exclude used to do.
  71
  72 Exit status is now correct.
  73
  74 +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
  75
  76 When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
  77
  78 New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
  79 you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
  80 instead of waiting for a write error.
  81
  82 New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
  83 people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
  84 need local modification.  These are what we use to do all our backups
  85 at the FSF.