Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - NEWS

   1 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
   2 Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3
   4 version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
   5
   6 * Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
   7 * Bug fixes.
   8
   9 version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
  10
  11 * Bug fixes.
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  13 version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
  14
  15 * Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
  16   Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
  17 * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
  18 * This release is only for fixes.  A more ambitious test release,
  19   with new features, is available as part of the paxutils.  Please see:
  20     http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
  21   The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
  22   at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
  23 * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
  24   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
  25   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
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  27 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
  28
  29 Sensitive matters
  30 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
  31 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
  32
  33 Output for humans
  34 * Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
  35 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
  36 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
  37 * More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
  38
  39 Creation
  40 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
  41 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
  42 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
  43 * Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
  44 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
  45 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
  46
  47 Extraction
  48 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
  49 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
  50 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
  51 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
  52 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
  53 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
  54 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
  55 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
  56 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
  57
  58 Various changes
  59 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
  60 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
  61 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
  62 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
  63 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
  64 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
  65 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
  66 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
  67
  68 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
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  70 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
  71
  72 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
  73 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
  74 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
  75 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
  76 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
  77
  78 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
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  80 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
  81
  82 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
  83 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
  84 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
  85 DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
  86
  87 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
  88
  89 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
  90
  91 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
  92 of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
  93 compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
  94 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
  95
  96 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
  97
  98 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
  99
 100 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
 101 for --info-script.
 102
 103 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
 104
 105 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
 106
 107 * Several Makefile cleanups.
 108 \f
 109 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 110
 111 * Many bug fixes.
 112 \f
 113 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 114 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
 115 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
 116 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
 117 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
 118
 119 * Many bug fixes.
 120
 121 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 122
 123 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
 124 for it will eventually be removed.
 125
 126 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
 127 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
 128
 129 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
 130 after they are added to the archive.
 131
 132 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
 133 the exit status.
 134
 135 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
 136 is being read or written.
 137
 138 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
 139 omitted from the archive.
 140
 141 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
 142 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
 143
 144 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
 145 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
 146
 147 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
 148 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
 149 around to the beginning.
 150
 151 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
 152 `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
 153 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
 154
 155 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
 156 their original values after dumping the file.
 157
 158 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
 159 what to dump.
 160
 161 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
 162 modification and access times.
 163
 164 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
 165 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
 166 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
 167 long names to work.
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 169 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
 170
 171 * Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  Names +newer and
 172 +newer-mtime work right.
 173
 174 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
 175
 176 * Sparse files now work correctly.
 177
 178 * +volume is now called +label.
 179
 180 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
 181 what +exclude used to do.
 182
 183 * Exit status is now correct.
 184
 185 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 186
 187 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 188
 189 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
 190 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
 191 point instead of waiting for a write error.
 192
 193 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
 194 to people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
 195 shouldn't need local modification.  These are what we use to do
 196 all our backups at the FSF.
 197 \f
 198 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
 199 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
 200 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 201
 202 * See ChangeLog for more details.