GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
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+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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-* 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 message translations en_GB (British English), 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- withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
+\f
version 1.13.26
+* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format.
+* 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.
+Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
+* 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 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+ The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.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 semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
+* Removed obsolete command line options:
+** --absolute-paths superseeded 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
+
version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
* Bug fixes.