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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 0018ca9..0aea692 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -2,8 +2,16 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 
 * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
 
+* Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution,
+  if the file system supports this.
+
+* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for
+  OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions.
+
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
+
 * Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
-so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
+so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and
 --multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
 
 * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
@@ -16,9 +24,10 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
 	 UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
 	   (GNU tar --check-links option)
 
-  Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics.
-  In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the
-  value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable.
+  Currently tar prints a warning when this option is used. Sometime
+  in the future its semantics will be changed to that of --check-links.
+  In the meanwhile we should announce a phase-in period where "l"
+  changes in semantics.
 
 * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
 
@@ -30,14 +39,27 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
   It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
   to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
 
-* Add tests for testing the added functonality.
+* Add tests for the new functonality.
+
+* Consider this:
+
+  From: Dennis Pund
+  Subject: TAR suggestion...
+  Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
 
-* Revise the --sparse option functionality.
+  What I would like to do is:
 
-  
+  foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
+
+  where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
+  to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
+
+  (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
+
+
 * Copyright notice
 
-  Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
   This file is part of GNU tar.