X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fee19ebb535565920c46cc5146f9ecdc28e0f384;hb=cb562d7194b75f7d548235554d5f262109c7e7c0;hp=17c13581725017a0339e959e30d7b4c1cb9b26f8;hpb=7f0553b27033f39991530a9e157f9e899ebb55d0;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 17c1358..fee19eb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,17 +1,18 @@ 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 1.12.64013 - Paul Eggert, 1999-06-18. -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 . +This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large file +environments like AIX 4.2, HP-UX 10.20, IRIX 6.2, and Solaris 2.6 that +(among other things) rely on integer system types longer than `long'. +Please send bug reports specific to this unofficial version of GNU `tar' +to . 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 +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.