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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 1.13.26
+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.
* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of
the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
- option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurence of each named
- file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurence filename'
- extracts the first occurence of `filename' from `archive'
+ option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named
+ file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename'
+ 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.
+
+* New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore.
+The scripts are compiled and installed if --enable-backup-scripts
+option is given to configure.
+
+* By default tar searches "rmt" utility in "$prefix/libexec/rmt",
+which is consistent with the location where the version of "rmt"
+included in the package is installed. Previous versions of tar
+used "/etc/rmt". The full path name to the "rmt" utility may
+be overridden either while configuring the package, by setting
+DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable, or on runtime, by giving option
+--rmt-command to tar.
+
* Removed obsolete command line options:
-** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names
+** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
** --block-compress is not needed any longer
-** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor
-** --modification-time superseeded by --touch
-** --read-full-blocks supeseeded by --read-full-records
-** --record-number superseeded by --block-number
-** --version-control superseeded by --backup
+** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor
+** --modification-time superseded by --touch
+** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records
+** --record-number superseded by --block-number
+** --version-control superseded by --backup
* 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
To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
- correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes.
+ correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
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