From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:16:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update
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Update
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5c83c97..95532bd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -38,10 +38,21 @@ it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
 prefixes removed.  The option is useful, for example, while comparing
 `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
 
+* New option --to-command pipes the contents of archive members to the
+specified command.
+
 * New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature
 of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
 access times.
 
+* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
+options.  Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
+
+* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
+get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
+the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME.  It can alter the
+archive name by writing new name to the file descriptor 3.
+
 * Better support for full-resolution time stamps.  Tar cannot restore
 time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
 guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time