use genfile instead of dd

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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@@ -17,14 +17,18 @@ would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
 back up. This change fixes the bug.
 
 * Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
-  the GNU convention.
+the GNU convention.
 
 * Skipping archive members is sped up.
 
 * restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
 or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
 
+* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
+the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
+
 * Bugfixes:
+** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
 ** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option
 ** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
 Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
@@ -33,6 +37,10 @@ previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
 were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
 lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
 extracted copy in such cases.
+** restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option.
+** Fixed verification of the created archives. 
+** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous
+versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
   
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 version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11