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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.
+
+* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
+so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --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 an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
+
+  From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
+  Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
+
+  some archives have members like
+  foo/bar
+  foo/baz
+  foo/bam
+  
+  When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
+  directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
+  the files over manually.
+
+  patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
+  of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
+  option like that, the above problem could be solved with
+
+  tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
+
+\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
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[         \f]*$"
+end: