GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
-Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-version 1.12.lfs.5 - Paul Eggert, 1998-11-15.
+version 1.12.64015 - Paul Eggert, 1999-06-28.
-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>.
+* 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 is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's
-just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for
-Large File Summit hosts like Solaris 2.6. The patches of this
-release have all been submitted via the usual channels and
-they should no longer be needed once the next official release
-of GNU tar is out.
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Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
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