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

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-28
+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.
 
@@ -47,6 +48,11 @@ 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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@@ -742,7 +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-  The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+  The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.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.
 
@@ -1067,7 +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.
@@ -1110,7 +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.