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-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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-version 1.13.90
+version 1.13.94 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-04-04
-* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format.
+* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
* New option --format allows to select the output archive format
* The default output format can be selected at configuration time
by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
-* Bug fixes.
-
* New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir
option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
the previous default behavior.
extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
+* New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX
+ keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax'
+ -o option.
+
+* --incremental and --listed-incremental options work correctly on
+ individual files, as well as on directories.
+
* Removed obsolete command line options:
** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
** --block-compress is not needed any longer
* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
(Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
- The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+ The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+
+* Bug fixes.
version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
projects / chaz / tar / blobdiff