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-This GNU tar 1.11. Please send bug reports, etc., to
-bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release.
+
+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. 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
-must reside in /etc). The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
+normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control 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.
-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.
+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 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
-
-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).)
+
+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
+itself as an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking cp, ln,
+and mv. If this happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a
+and `ar rc' to put it in a library liballoca.a, and put that in LIBS
+instead of -lPW. This problem does not occur when using gcc, which
+has alloca built in.
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