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 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
-Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-version 1.12.lfs.1 - Paul Eggert, 1998-02.
+version 1.12.64015 - Paul Eggert, 1999-06-28.
+
+* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
+  Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
+* Many bug fixes.
+* This release is intended only as a bugfix release.  A more ambitious version,
+  with new features, is also available as part of paxutils.  Please see:
+    http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
+  The bug fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
+  at some point, but they haven't been merged as of this writing.
 
-This version is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large File
-Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer system
-types longer than `long'.  Please send bug reports specific to this
-unofficial version of GNU `tar' to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
 \f
 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.