X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=inline;f=NEWS;h=73271942ed2ac17852074fdb9101d8a9fd080adf;hb=5b9d8c93c78f8c0177e4c837dcc3cdc4f79d59c5;hp=a44e288065382dd761b3ee8870e4f6bccf1e18f2;hpb=622724a8867f1b83fedad961fa9b45020ed01edb;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a44e288..7327194 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,52 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 +Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end for copying conditions. + +Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +version 1.13.26 + +* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format. +* New option --format allows to select the output archive format +* The default output format can be selected at configuration time +by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT. +Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX. +* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of +path elements from the name of the file being extracted. + +* Bug fixes. + +* New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir + option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer + the previous default behavior. + +* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian), + hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk + (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional). + The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. + +* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it +does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible +with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of +--old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed +in future. + +* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped +for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option. +The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility +with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as +the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. + +* Removed obsolete command line options: +** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names +** --block-compress is not needed any longer +** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor +** --modification-time superseeded by --touch +** --read-full-blocks supeseeded by --read-full-records +** --record-number superseeded by --block-number +** --version-control superseeded by --backup version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26 @@ -8,6 +56,7 @@ version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22 * New option --overwrite-dir. * Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems. +* The message translations for Korean are available again. version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13 @@ -485,8 +534,8 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free -Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 +Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.