X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=575df3ca5931407dfbcde1ae816f1156e881ac1b;hb=a96991da3ee0978a4a1010f7d5b7400e5dc6da36;hp=b9acf16ac7a719345d7e99b2806a2e7bda4daf49;hpb=f46de402ef452ca58e205ce04aef05cc9877611c;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b9acf16..575df3c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,17 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright © 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -version 1.12.64008 - Paul Eggert, 1999-03-17. +version 1.12.64016 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-01. -This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large file environments -like Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 that rely on integer system -types longer than `long'. Please send bug reports specific to this -unofficial version of GNU `tar' to . +* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts. + Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc. +* Many bug fixes. +* This release is intended only as a bugfix release. A more ambitious version, + with new features, is also available as part of paxutils. Please see: + http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/ + The bug fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils + at some point, but they haven't been merged as of this writing. -This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's -just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for -large file hosts. The patches of this -release have all been (or will be) submitted via the usual channels and -they should no longer be needed once the next official release -of GNU tar is out. Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.