X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ee4e66a1048b54f87998146d42277cfd1db7b9e7;hb=aa985330d59a033156b0d793f880de952eafa4e5;hp=758a84244f909fb18a909b61645384517d9e053d;hpb=ad3e6fd9fa6bab502eba1b05e98864c35f06cc62;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 758a842..ee4e66a 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 1.12.64001 - Paul Eggert, 1999-01-22. +version 1.12.64015 - Paul Eggert, 1999-06-28. -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 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.