-New conversion specifiers are implemented:
-
- %d - output number of seconds since tar started
- %T - output I/O totals
- %{FMT}t - output current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format
- If {FMT} is omitted, use %c
- %{N}* - pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the
- current screen width, if {N} is not given.
-
+New conversion specifiers are implemented. Some of them take
+optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent
+sign and the specifier letter.
+
+ %d - output number of seconds since tar started
+ %{r,w,d}T - output I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
+ to be used before number of bytes read, written and
+ deleted, correspondingly.
+ %{FMT}t - output current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format
+ If {FMT} is omitted, use %c
+ %{N}* - pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the
+ current screen width, if {N} is not given.
+ %c - a shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+
+* Manpages
+
+This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
+Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the
+home-made pages they provided so far.
+