X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=575df3ca5931407dfbcde1ae816f1156e881ac1b;hb=e48983900d066e3661bfd82c59006182bb4f40b5;hp=17c13581725017a0339e959e30d7b4c1cb9b26f8;hpb=7f0553b27033f39991530a9e157f9e899ebb55d0;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 17c1358..575df3c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,17 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -version 1.12.lfs.2 - Paul Eggert, 1998-02. +version 1.12.64016 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-01. -This version is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large File -Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 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 Summit hosts like Solaris 2.6. The patches of this -release have all been 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.