-This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large file environments
-like Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 that rely on integer system
-types longer than `long'. Please send bug reports specific to this
-unofficial version of GNU `tar' to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
+* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
+ Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
+* Many bug fixes.
+* This release is intended only as a bugfix release. A more ambitious version,
+ with new features, is also available as part of paxutils. Please see:
+ http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
+ The bug fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
+ at some point, but they haven't been merged as of this writing.