Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - README

   1 Hey!  Emacs!  Yo!  This is -*- Text -*- !!!
   2
   3 This is GNU tar 1.11.2.  Please send bug reports, etc., to
   4 bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.  This is a beta-test release.  Please
   5 try it out.  There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will
   6 contain a manual.
   7
   8 GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
   9 added features.  The manual is currently being written.
  10
  11 This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
  12 normally must reside in /etc).  The mt tape drive control program is
  13 in the GNU cpio distribution.
  14
  15 See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
  16 See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version
  17 of tar.
  18
  19 makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.
  20
  21 Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.  In
  22 order to have them work right, you need to kill the automounting
  23 program which tries to mount floppies as soon as they are added.
  24
  25 If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
  26 scripts.  They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups.  Most
  27 importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or
  28 --newer-mtime to do incremental dumps.  The only option that works
  29 correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental.  (When extracting
  30 incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).)
  31
  32 If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has
  33 rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might
  34 give you an incorrect version of rename.  On HP-UX this manifests
  35 itself as an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking cp, ln,
  36 and mv.  If this happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a
  37 and `ar rc' to put it in a library liballoca.a, and put that in LIBS
  38 instead of -lPW.  This problem does not occur when using gcc, which
  39 has alloca built in.
  40