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-version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased)
+version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19
* New features
* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
options. Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
+* New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar
+quotes member names on output. The --quoting-style takes an argument
+specifying the quoting style to use (literal, shell, shell-always,
+c, escape, locale, clocale). The argument to --quote-chars is a string
+specifying characters to quote, even if the selected quoting style
+would not quote them otherwise. The option --no-quote-chars is
+provided to disable quoting certain characters.
+
* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME. It can alter the
** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
meta-data cannot be stored in the header due to format limitations
(for ustar and v7 formats).
+** The --version option now also outputs information about copyright,
+license, and credits. This reverts to the behavior of tar 1.14 and
+earlier, and conforms to the GNU coding standards. The --license (-L)
+option introduced in tar 1.15 has been removed, since it's no longer
+needed.
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version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
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