-This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large
-file environments like Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 that rely on integer
-system types longer than `long'. Ordinary GNU `tar' 1.12 cannot handle
-files larger than 2 GB when compiled in such environments. This port
-addresses that problem, and fixes some other well-known bugs in GNU tar 1.12.
-Please send bug reports specific to this unofficial version of GNU `tar'
-to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
-
-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.
-
-
Please glance through *all* sections of this
`README' file before starting configuration. Also make sure you read files
`ABOUT-NLS' and `INSTALL' if you are not familiar with them already.
-If you got the `tar' distribution in `shar' format, timestamps ought to be
-properly restored, do not ignore such complaints at `unshar' time.
+If you got the `tar' distribution in `shar' format, time stamps ought to be
+properly restored; do not ignore such complaints at `unshar' time.
GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk
archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes
All are available on GNU archive sites, like in
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/.
-Send bug reports to `tar-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu'. (Beware, old-timers: it is
+Send bug reports to `bug-tar@gnu.org'. (Beware, old-timers: it is
`@gnu', not `@prep'; and not `bug-gnu-utils' anymore.) A bug report is
an adequate description of the problem: your input, what you expected,
what you got, and why this is wrong. Diffs are welcome, but they only
* Failed `incremen.sh'.
-In an NFS environment, lack of synchronisation between machine clocks
-might create difficulties to any tool comparing dates and file timestamps,
+In an NFS environment, lack of synchronization between machine clocks
+might create difficulties to any tool comparing dates and file time stamps,
like `tar' in incremental dumps. This has been a recurrent problem in
GNU Makefiles for the last few years. We would like a general solution.
* File attributes.
About *security*, it is probable that future releases of `tar' will have
-some behaviour changed. There are many pending suggestions to choose from.
+some behavior changed. There are many pending suggestions to choose from.
Today, extracting an archive not being `root', `tar' will restore suid/sgid
bits on files but owned by the extracting user. `root' automatically gets
-a lot of special priviledges, `-p' might later become required to get them.
+a lot of special privileges, `-p' might later become required to get them.
GNU `tar' does not properly restore symlink attributes. Various systems
-implement flavours of symbolic links showing different behaviour and
+implement flavors of symbolic links showing different behavior and
properties. We did not successfully sorted all these out yet. Currently,
the `lchown' call will be used if available, but that's all.
execution or usability bugs. This was accompanied all over with an
internal cleanup in the sources, and the reassembly of a `tar' manual.
-The `BACKLOG' file shows an approximative priorisation of the many pending
+The `BACKLOG' file shows approximate priorities of the many pending
problems and suggestions. Besides pending problems and all other matters
listed above, the cleanup is planned to continue and extend to the general
-organisation of the code, preparing a long time in advance for a possible
+organization of the code, preparing a long time in advance for a possible
merge of the `cpio' and `tar' distributions, into some common `paxutils'.
We also want to address some long-awaited performance issues (for example:
double buffering) or enhancements (for example: per-file compression).
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