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 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
   5
   6 * A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
   7   excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
   8 * Bug fixes.
   9
  10 version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
  11
  12 * Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
  13 * Bug fixes.
  14
  15 version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
  16
  17 * Bug fixes.
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  19 version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
  20
  21 * Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
  22   Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
  23 * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
  24 * This release is only for fixes.  A more ambitious test release,
  25   with new features, is available as part of the paxutils.  Please see:
  26     http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
  27   The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
  28   at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
  29 * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
  30   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
  31   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
  32 \f
  33 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
  34
  35 Sensitive matters
  36 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
  37 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
  38
  39 Output for humans
  40 * Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
  41 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
  42 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
  43 * More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
  44
  45 Creation
  46 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
  47 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
  48 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
  49 * Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
  50 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
  51 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
  52
  53 Extraction
  54 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
  55 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
  56 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
  57 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
  58 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
  59 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
  60 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
  61 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
  62 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
  63
  64 Various changes
  65 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
  66 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
  67 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
  68 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
  69 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
  70 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
  71 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
  72 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
  73
  74 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
  75 \f
  76 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
  77
  78 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
  79 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
  80 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
  81 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
  82 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
  83
  84 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
  85 \f
  86 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
  87
  88 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
  89 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
  90 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
  91 DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
  92
  93 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
  94
  95 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
  96
  97 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
  98 of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
  99 compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
 100 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
 101
 102 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
 103
 104 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
 105
 106 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
 107 for --info-script.
 108
 109 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
 110
 111 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
 112
 113 * Several Makefile cleanups.
 114 \f
 115 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 116
 117 * Many bug fixes.
 118 \f
 119 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 120 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
 121 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
 122 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
 123 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
 124
 125 * Many bug fixes.
 126
 127 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 128
 129 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
 130 for it will eventually be removed.
 131
 132 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
 133 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
 134
 135 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
 136 after they are added to the archive.
 137
 138 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
 139 the exit status.
 140
 141 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
 142 is being read or written.
 143
 144 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
 145 omitted from the archive.
 146
 147 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
 148 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
 149
 150 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
 151 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
 152
 153 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
 154 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
 155 around to the beginning.
 156
 157 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
 158 `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
 159 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
 160
 161 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
 162 their original values after dumping the file.
 163
 164 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
 165 what to dump.
 166
 167 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
 168 modification and access times.
 169
 170 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
 171 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
 172 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
 173 long names to work.
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 175 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
 176
 177 * Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  Names +newer and
 178 +newer-mtime work right.
 179
 180 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
 181
 182 * Sparse files now work correctly.
 183
 184 * +volume is now called +label.
 185
 186 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
 187 what +exclude used to do.
 188
 189 * Exit status is now correct.
 190
 191 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 192
 193 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 194
 195 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
 196 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
 197 point instead of waiting for a write error.
 198
 199 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
 200 to people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
 201 shouldn't need local modification.  These are what we use to do
 202 all our backups at the FSF.
 203 \f
 204 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
 205 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
 206 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 207
 208 * See ChangeLog for more details.