X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e1743391344aa1c47889cac4dac54a7db74fbd53;hb=edf35a92f8e0fe2cfcd2df5b94d042860635e7f1;hp=136c9e59cb7554a49afcda39b354561e67259185;hpb=c977f9dd60e3d34d280aa0a1093f67936757cd49;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 136c9e5..e174339 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,81 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24. + +* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links. + +* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions. + +* --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value. + +* `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header + values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 + format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time + stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar + archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of + GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old + behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values, + and which rejects large files. + +* On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in + the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T - + 2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit + time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning. + +* `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering + that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract + as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage. + +* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency. + + +version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23. + +* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I, + for compatibility with paxutils. + +* -T /dev/null now matches nothing; previously, it matched anything + if no explicit operands were given. + +* The `--' option now works the same as with other GNU utilities; + it causes later operands to be interpreted as file names, not options, + even if they begin with `-'. + +* For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone + abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice. + Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are + not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use + numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like + `EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous. + + +version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20. + +* `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are + out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This + change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.] + + +version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18. + +* `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one. + POSIX.1 requires this, and some other `tar' implementations check for it. + +* `tar' no longer silently accepts a block containing nonzero checksum bytes + as a zero block. + +* `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a + numeric header field. + + version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16. * For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of the original file or directory. + version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14. * --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options. @@ -21,7 +90,7 @@ version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11. * An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to - exclude a file if it matches any file name compoment. + exclude a file if it matches any file name component. * The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly. Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric. @@ -33,7 +102,7 @@ version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11. * When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64 for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal. This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes), - larger uids, negative timestamps, etc. + larger uids, negative time stamps, etc. * When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY @@ -92,16 +161,16 @@ Sensitive matters * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell. Output for humans -* Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext. +* Offer internationalization capabilities of most recent GNU gettext. * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators! * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates. -* More normalisation and cleanup in error messages. +* More normalization and cleanup in error messages. Creation * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option. * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time. * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary. -* Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster. +* Recognize creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster. * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE'). * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.