Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - README

   1 This GNU tar 1.10.  Please send bug reports, etc., to
   2 bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
   3
   4 GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
   5 added features.  The manual is currently being written.  An old
   6 manual, surely riddled with errors, is in tar.texinfo.  Please don't
   7 send in bug reports about that manual.  In particular, the mechanism
   8 for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed.
   9
  10 This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
  11 must reside in /etc).  The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
  12
  13 See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
  14
  15 makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.
  16
  17 Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
  18 I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
  19 problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
  20
  21
  22 User-visible changes since 1.09:
  23
  24 Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.
  25 Names newer and --newer-mtime work right.
  26
  27 -g is now --incremental
  28 -G is now --listed-incremental
  29
  30 Sparse files now work correctly.
  31
  32 --volume is now called --label.
  33
  34 --exclude now takes a filename argument, and --exclude-from does what
  35 --exclude used to do.
  36
  37 Exit status is now correct.
  38
  39 --totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
  40
  41 When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
  42
  43 New option --tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
  44 you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
  45 instead of waiting for a write error.
  46
  47 New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
  48 people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
  49 need local modification.  These are what we use to do all our backups
  50 at the FSF.