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@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-This GNU tar 1.10.  Please send bug reports, etc., to
-bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.  
+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.  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
@@ -11,6 +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.
 
@@ -18,33 +24,13 @@ Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
 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 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).)
 
-User-visible changes since 1.09:
-
-Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  
-Names newer and --newer-mtime work right.
-
--g is now --incremental
--G is now --listed-incremental
-
-Sparse files now work correctly.
-
---volume is now called --label.
-
---exclude now takes a filename argument, and --exclude-from does what
---exclude used to do.
-
-Exit status is now correct.
-
---totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
-
-When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
-
-New option --tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
-you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
-instead of waiting for a write error.
+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.
 
-New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
-people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
-need local modification.  These are what we use to do all our backups
-at the FSF.