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@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 
 * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
 
-* Fix tar so that it can read and write POSIX.1-1990 tar archives.
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
 
-* Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives
-  (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001).
+* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
+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.
   This would unify paxutils with tar.
@@ -31,6 +32,24 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
   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.
+
+* Consider this:
+
+  From: Dennis Pund
+  Subject: TAR suggestion...
+  Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
+
+  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.
@@ -51,3 +70,9 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
   along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
   the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ 	]*$"
+end: