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 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
   5
   6 * Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
   7
   8 version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
   9
  10 * Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
  11   this matches historical practice.
  12 * Bug fixes.
  13
  14 version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
  15
  16 * A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
  17   excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
  18 * Bug fixes.
  19
  20 version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
  21
  22 * Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
  23 * Bug fixes.
  24
  25 version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
  26
  27 * Bug fixes.
  28 \f
  29 version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
  30
  31 * Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
  32   Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
  33 * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
  34 * This release is only for fixes.  A more ambitious test release,
  35   with new features, is available as part of the paxutils.  Please see:
  36     http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
  37   The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
  38   at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
  39 * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
  40   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
  41   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
  42 \f
  43 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
  44
  45 Sensitive matters
  46 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
  47 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
  48
  49 Output for humans
  50 * Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
  51 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
  52 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
  53 * More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
  54
  55 Creation
  56 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
  57 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
  58 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
  59 * Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
  60 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
  61 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
  62
  63 Extraction
  64 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
  65 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
  66 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
  67 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
  68 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
  69 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
  70 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
  71 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
  72 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
  73
  74 Various changes
  75 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
  76 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
  77 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
  78 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
  79 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
  80 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
  81 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
  82 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
  83
  84 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
  85 \f
  86 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
  87
  88 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
  89 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
  90 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
  91 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
  92 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
  93
  94 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
  95 \f
  96 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
  97
  98 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
  99 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
 100 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
 101 DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
 102
 103 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
 104
 105 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
 106
 107 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
 108 of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
 109 compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
 110 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
 111
 112 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
 113
 114 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
 115
 116 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
 117 for --info-script.
 118
 119 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
 120
 121 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
 122
 123 * Several Makefile cleanups.
 124 \f
 125 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 126
 127 * Many bug fixes.
 128 \f
 129 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 130 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
 131 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
 132 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
 133 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
 134
 135 * Many bug fixes.
 136
 137 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 138
 139 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
 140 for it will eventually be removed.
 141
 142 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
 143 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
 144
 145 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
 146 after they are added to the archive.
 147
 148 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
 149 the exit status.
 150
 151 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
 152 is being read or written.
 153
 154 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
 155 omitted from the archive.
 156
 157 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
 158 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
 159
 160 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
 161 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
 162
 163 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
 164 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
 165 around to the beginning.
 166
 167 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
 168 `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
 169 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
 170
 171 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
 172 their original values after dumping the file.
 173
 174 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
 175 what to dump.
 176
 177 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
 178 modification and access times.
 179
 180 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
 181 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
 182 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
 183 long names to work.
 184 \f
 185 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
 186
 187 * Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  Names +newer and
 188 +newer-mtime work right.
 189
 190 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
 191
 192 * Sparse files now work correctly.
 193
 194 * +volume is now called +label.
 195
 196 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
 197 what +exclude used to do.
 198
 199 * Exit status is now correct.
 200
 201 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 202
 203 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 204
 205 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
 206 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
 207 point instead of waiting for a write error.
 208
 209 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
 210 to people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
 211 shouldn't need local modification.  These are what we use to do
 212 all our backups at the FSF.
 213 \f
 214 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
 215 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
 216 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 217
 218 * See ChangeLog for more details.