X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4b577e78eb70b758991ad2bf6f209d5e7040da36;hb=a8980452476b33f523adfef6fb70cb8ab70cff1b;hp=6783c57828e978612594695ce275c983f47b761e;hpb=c086e08a4bb931721b2bc8db545ecb3eeaa431dd;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/README b/README index 6783c57..4b577e7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,15 +1,12 @@ Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!! -This GNU tar 1.11. Please send bug reports, etc., to +This GNU tar 1.11.2. Please send bug reports, etc., to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. Please -try it out. After bug reports are processed for this release, version -1.12 will be released. +try it out. There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will +contain a manual. GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with -added features. The manual is currently being written. An old -manual, surely riddled with errors, is in tar.texinfo. Please don't -send in bug reports about that manual. In particular, the mechanism -for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed. +added features. The manual is currently being written. This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is @@ -32,9 +29,6 @@ importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental. (When extracting incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).) -There is no tar manual in this release. The old manual has too many -problems to make it usable. A new manual will appear in version 1.12. - If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might give you an incorrect version of rename. On HP-UX this manifests