Allow for size suffixes in -L and --record-size options.

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@@ -1,10 +1,24 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-17
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-07-16
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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+version 1.23.90 - (Git)
+
+* The --full-time option.
+
+New command line option `--full-time' instructs tar to output file
+time stamps to the full resolution.
 
 * Bugfixes.
 
+** Spurious error diagnostics on broken pipe.
+
+When receiving SIGPIPE, tar would exit with error status and
+"write error" diagnostics. In particular, this occurred if
+invoked as in the example below:
+
+   tar tf archive.tar | head -n 1
+
 ** --remove-files
 
 Tar --remove-files failed to remove a directory which contained
@@ -34,6 +48,13 @@ update of an archive:
 
 This did not work in previous versions, in spite of what the docs said.  
 
+** --record-size and --tape-length (-L) options
+
+Usual size suffixes are allowed for these options.  For example,
+-L10k stands for a 10 kilobyte tape length. 
+
+** Fix dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option.
+
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 version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10
 
@@ -229,10 +250,10 @@ can be changed using `flags=' statement before the expressions, e.g.:
 
 ** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files.  This
 is fixed.
-** Fixed record size autodetection.  If detected record size differs from
-the expected value (either default, or set on the command line), tar
-always prints a warning if verbosity level is set to 1 or greater,
-i.e. if either -t or -v option is given.
+** Fixed record size autodetection.  If the detected record size differs from
+the expected value (either default one, or the one set from the
+command line), tar always prints a warning if verbosity level is set
+to 1 or greater, i.e. if either -t or -v option is given.
 
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@@ -332,7 +353,7 @@ settings.
 
 When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x,
 -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with
-code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
+code 0.  It is fixed.  Tar now issues the following diagnostic message:
 'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2.
 
 * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.
@@ -727,7 +748,7 @@ tar.
 * 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 (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+  The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
 
 * Bug fixes.
 
@@ -1052,7 +1073,7 @@ version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
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-Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
+Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
 
 Sensitive matters
 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
@@ -1095,7 +1116,7 @@ Various changes
 
 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
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-Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
+Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
 
 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.