Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - NEWS

   1 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
   2 Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3
   4 version 1.12.lfs.1 - Paul Eggert, 1998-02.
   5
   6 This version is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large File
   7 Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer system
   8 types longer than `long'.  Please send bug reports specific to this
   9 unofficial version of GNU `tar' to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
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  11 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
  12
  13 Sensitive matters
  14 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
  15 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
  16
  17 Output for humans
  18 * Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
  19 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
  20 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
  21 * More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
  22
  23 Creation
  24 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
  25 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
  26 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
  27 * Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
  28 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
  29 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
  30
  31 Extraction
  32 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
  33 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
  34 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
  35 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
  36 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
  37 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
  38 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
  39 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
  40 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
  41
  42 Various changes
  43 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
  44 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
  45 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
  46 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
  47 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
  48 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
  49 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
  50 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
  51
  52 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
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  54 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
  55
  56 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
  57 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
  58 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
  59 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
  60 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
  61
  62 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
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  64 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
  65
  66 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
  67 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
  68 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
  69 DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
  70
  71 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
  72
  73 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
  74
  75 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
  76 of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
  77 compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
  78 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
  79
  80 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
  81
  82 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
  83
  84 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
  85 for --info-script.
  86
  87 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
  88
  89 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
  90
  91 * Several Makefile cleanups.
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  93 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
  94
  95 * Many bug fixes.
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  97 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
  98 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
  99 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
 100 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
 101 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
 102
 103 * Many bug fixes.
 104
 105 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 106
 107 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
 108 for it will eventually be removed.
 109
 110 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
 111 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
 112
 113 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
 114 after they are added to the archive.
 115
 116 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
 117 the exit status.
 118
 119 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
 120 is being read or written.
 121
 122 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
 123 omitted from the archive.
 124
 125 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
 126 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
 127
 128 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
 129 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
 130
 131 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
 132 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
 133 around to the beginning.
 134
 135 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
 136 `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
 137 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
 138
 139 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
 140 their original values after dumping the file.
 141
 142 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
 143 what to dump.
 144
 145 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
 146 modification and access times.
 147
 148 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
 149 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
 150 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
 151 long names to work.
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 153 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
 154
 155 * Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  Names +newer and
 156 +newer-mtime work right.
 157
 158 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
 159
 160 * Sparse files now work correctly.
 161
 162 * +volume is now called +label.
 163
 164 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
 165 what +exclude used to do.
 166
 167 * Exit status is now correct.
 168
 169 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 170
 171 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 172
 173 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
 174 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
 175 point instead of waiting for a write error.
 176
 177 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
 178 to people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
 179 shouldn't need local modification.  These are what we use to do
 180 all our backups at the FSF.
 181 \f
 182 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
 183 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
 184 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 185
 186 * See ChangeLog for more details.