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 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
   5
   6 * Bug fixes.
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   8 version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
   9
  10 * Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
  11   Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
  12 * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
  13 * This release is only for fixes.  A more ambitious test release,
  14   with new features, is available as part of the paxutils.  Please see:
  15     http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
  16   The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
  17   at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
  18 * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
  19   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
  20   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
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  22 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
  23
  24 Sensitive matters
  25 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
  26 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
  27
  28 Output for humans
  29 * Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
  30 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
  31 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
  32 * More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
  33
  34 Creation
  35 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
  36 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
  37 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
  38 * Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
  39 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
  40 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
  41
  42 Extraction
  43 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
  44 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
  45 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
  46 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
  47 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
  48 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
  49 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
  50 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
  51 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
  52
  53 Various changes
  54 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
  55 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
  56 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
  57 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
  58 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
  59 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
  60 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
  61 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
  62
  63 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
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  65 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
  66
  67 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
  68 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
  69 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
  70 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
  71 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
  72
  73 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
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  75 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
  76
  77 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
  78 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
  79 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
  80 DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
  81
  82 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
  83
  84 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
  85
  86 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
  87 of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
  88 compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
  89 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
  90
  91 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
  92
  93 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
  94
  95 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
  96 for --info-script.
  97
  98 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
  99
 100 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
 101
 102 * Several Makefile cleanups.
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 104 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 105
 106 * Many bug fixes.
 107 \f
 108 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 109 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
 110 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
 111 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
 112 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
 113
 114 * Many bug fixes.
 115
 116 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 117
 118 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
 119 for it will eventually be removed.
 120
 121 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
 122 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
 123
 124 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
 125 after they are added to the archive.
 126
 127 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
 128 the exit status.
 129
 130 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
 131 is being read or written.
 132
 133 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
 134 omitted from the archive.
 135
 136 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
 137 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
 138
 139 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
 140 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
 141
 142 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
 143 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
 144 around to the beginning.
 145
 146 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
 147 `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
 148 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
 149
 150 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
 151 their original values after dumping the file.
 152
 153 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
 154 what to dump.
 155
 156 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
 157 modification and access times.
 158
 159 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
 160 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
 161 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
 162 long names to work.
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 164 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
 165
 166 * Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  Names +newer and
 167 +newer-mtime work right.
 168
 169 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
 170
 171 * Sparse files now work correctly.
 172
 173 * +volume is now called +label.
 174
 175 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
 176 what +exclude used to do.
 177
 178 * Exit status is now correct.
 179
 180 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 181
 182 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 183
 184 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
 185 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
 186 point instead of waiting for a write error.
 187
 188 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
 189 to people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
 190 shouldn't need local modification.  These are what we use to do
 191 all our backups at the FSF.
 192 \f
 193 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
 194 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
 195 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 196
 197 * See ChangeLog for more details.