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 Hey!  Emacs!  Yo!  This is -*- Text -*- !!!
+
 This GNU tar 1.11.  Please send bug reports, etc., to
-bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.  This is a beta-test release.  
+bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.  This is a beta-test release.  Please
+try it out.  After bug reports are processed for this release, version
+1.12 will be released.
 
 GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
 added features.  The manual is currently being written.  An old
@@ -12,6 +15,8 @@ This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
 must reside in /etc).  The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
 
 See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
+See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version
+of tar.
 
 makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.
 
@@ -20,7 +25,12 @@ I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
 problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
 
 If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
-scripts.  They are what we use at the FSF
-
-User-visible changes since 1.10:
+scripts.  They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups.  Most
+importantly, do not use +incremental (-G) or +after-date (-N) or
++newer-mtime to do incremental dumps.  The only option that works
+correctly for this purpose is +listed-incremental.  (When extracting
+incremental dumps, use +incremental (-G).)
+
+There is no tar manual in this release.  The old manual has too many
+problems to make it usable.  A new manual will appear in version 1.12.