X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f68759c9a20cbc8d3da3dae4c71fc34cce94aa2b;hb=49ce0ebbea0bbd3c03b87b0cae94aaaf63d10b30;hp=36926e87af7950fef3475ede16c21a522da6cc05;hpb=b68057816b2f880a8bd2e9747a9b75d60f7e1a4f;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 36926e8..f68759c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,24 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 +Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end for copying conditions. -* 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 The code 'no' for Norwegian has been - withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. +Please send GNU tar bug reports to + version 1.13.26 * Bug fixes. +* 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 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 + The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. + * The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of @@ -26,6 +31,15 @@ The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. +* Removed obsolete command line options: +** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names +** --block-compress is not needed any longer +** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor +** --modification-time superseeded by --touch +** --read-full-blocks supeseeded by --read-full-records +** --record-number superseeded by --block-number +** --version-control superseeded by --backup + version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26 * Bug fixes.