Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!!
-This GNU tar 1.11.1. Please send bug reports, etc., to
+This is GNU tar 1.11.2. 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. This release includes only bugfixes past
-version 1.11, most of which are fairly important.
+try it out. There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will
+contain a manual.
GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
-added features. The manual is currently being written. An old
-manual, surely riddled with errors, is in tar.texinfo. Please don't
-send in bug reports about that manual. In particular, the mechanism
-for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed.
+added features. The manual is currently being written.
This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is
Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT. In
order to have them work right, you need to kill the automounting
-program which tries to monut floppies as soon as they are added.
+program which tries to mount floppies as soon as they are added.
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
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.
-
If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has
rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might
give you an incorrect version of rename. On HP-UX this manifests
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