X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=34f794eeecf39303f506cb3e3b56e445279855dc;hb=cd206cd8994fe13e3e869077b682d9ba7593669a;hp=7f930344027f2001dab47725bf80b627969214e7;hpb=d5c599707acdf0b496102656cff47c96397fa97d;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7f93034..34f794e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,62 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright 1994, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +* 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 The code 'no' for Norwegian has been + withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. + +version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26 + +* Bug fixes. + +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 + +* Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes. + +version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29 + +* Bug fixes. + +version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28 + +* Porting and copyright notice fixes. + +version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27 + +* Some bugs were fixed: + - security problems + - hard links to symbolic links + +* New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion. + +* New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards, + --wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored). + Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how + exclude patterns are interpreted. + +* The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored + --no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash. + This is a quiet change to the semantics of --exclude. The previous + semantics were a failed attempt at backward compatibility but it + became clear that the semantics were puzzling and did not satisfy + everybody. Rather than continue to try to revive that dead horse we + thought it better to substitute cleaner semantics, with options so + that you can change the behavior more to your liking. + +* New message translations for Indonesian and Turkish. + The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors. + It will be reissued once those are fixed. version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13 @@ -260,7 +317,7 @@ version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08. but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils. Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2. -Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04. +Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04. Sensitive matters * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions. @@ -303,7 +360,7 @@ Various changes Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free. -Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06. +Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06. * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish. * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual. @@ -436,3 +493,25 @@ Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01. Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. * See ChangeLog for more details. + + + +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 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.