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diff --git a/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit b/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit
index 56c24a1..6d9457d 100755
--- a/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit
+++ b/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /usr/bin/perl -w
 # Display and edit the 'dev' field in tar's snapshots
-# Copyright 2007, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2007, 2011, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This file is part of GNU tar.
 
@@ -260,7 +260,9 @@ sub show_device_counts ($) {
 # in the incremen.c source file, where the TYPE_MIN and TYPE_MAX
 # pre-processor expressions are used to determine the range that can be
 # expressed by the C data type used for each field; the values in the
-# array defined below should match those calculations.
+# array defined below should match those calculations.  (For tar v1.27
+# and later, the valid ranges for a particular tar binary can easily
+# be determined using the "tar --show-snapshot-field-ranges" command.)
  
 sub choose_architecture ($) {
     my $opt_a = shift;