X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=088fedbda06ad10913fb29b9a767600e902051d7;hb=b58452bdbd7433cbbc5e5c0887ce846a2fa92f05;hp=73f177cccda323b25dc67efd7a98dd4c732f684d;hpb=35d44a05ebc344c349f0f7cdb5ef2bbf3b33ac12;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 73f177c..088fedb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.13.26 +version 1.13.92 * Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format. * New option --format allows to select the output archive format @@ -37,19 +37,23 @@ version 1.13.26 * New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This - option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurence of each named - file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurence filename' - extracts the first occurence of `filename' from `archive' + option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named + file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename' + extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive' and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive. +* New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX + keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax' + -o option. + * Removed obsolete command line options: -** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names +** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names ** --block-compress is not needed any longer -** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor -** --modification-time superseeded by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-** --record-number superseeded by --block-number -** --version-control superseeded by --backup +** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor +** --modification-time superseded by --touch +** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records +** --record-number superseded by --block-number +** --version-control superseded by --backup * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk @@ -170,7 +174,7 @@ version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13. To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option. * Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS) - correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes. + correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters. * The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about