From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:33:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Version 1.13.12 X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=edf35a92f8e0fe2cfcd2df5b94d042860635e7f1;p=chaz%2Ftar Version 1.13.12 --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2538025..e174339 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,35 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24. + +* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links. + +* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions. + +* --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value. + +* `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header + values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 + format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time + stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar + archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of + GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old + behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values, + and which rejects large files. + +* On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in + the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T - + 2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit + time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning. + +* `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering + that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract + as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage. + +* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency. + + version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23. * The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I, @@ -16,7 +45,7 @@ version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23. * For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice. Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are - not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, thougy, that you should use + not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like `EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous. @@ -24,13 +53,9 @@ version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23. version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20. * `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are - out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. This - affects archive members with negative time stamps or uids, and - archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar archives cannot be read - by traditional tar, or by older versions of GNU tar. Use the - --old-archive option to revert to the old behavior, which uses - unportable representations for negative values, and which rejects - large files. + out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This + change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.] + version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.