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 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 <bug-tar@gnu.org>
+
+
+version 1.13.90
+
+* 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 en_GB (British English), 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-  withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.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.
+
+* 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 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.
+
+* Removed obsolete command line options:
+** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
+** --block-compress is not needed any longer
+** --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
+  (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
+  The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
 
 version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
 
@@ -124,7 +170,7 @@ 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
@@ -515,3 +561,8 @@ 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.
+
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[	]*$"
+end: