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-From: Roesinger Eric <ROESINGE@tce.com>
-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500
+Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 
-It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
-to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
+* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
+
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
+
+* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
+so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and
+--multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
+
+* Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
+  This would unify paxutils with tar.
+
+* Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar
+  as specified by UNIX98.  The main problem is:
+
+     l   GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries.
+        UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
+          (GNU tar --check-links option)
+
+  Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics.
+  In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the
+  value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable.
+
+* Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
+
+* Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.
+
+  From: Roesinger Eric <ROESINGE@tce.com>
+  Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500
+
+  It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
+  to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
+
+* Add tests for testing the added functonality.
+
+* Consider this:
+
+  From: Dennis Pund
+  Subject: TAR suggestion...
+  Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
+
+  What I would like to do is:
+
+  foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
+
+  where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
+  to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
+
+  (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
+
+\f  
+* Copyright notice
+
+  Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+  This file is part of GNU tar.
+
+  GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+  any later version.
+
+  GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+  GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+  the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+  Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+\f
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