-Current Version: 1.11.2
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
+2004, 2005
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end for copying conditions.
+Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
+\f
+version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased)
+
+* New features
+
+* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in command line.
+The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
+including another -T option.
+Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C
+as option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name
+starts with - is handled as option. To insert file names starting with
+dash, use --add-file option.
+
+* List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
+automatically. It is not necessary to give --null option.
+
+* New option --no-unquote disables unquoting input file names. This
+is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
+An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
+
+* Better support for full-resolution time stamps. Tar cannot restore
+time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
+guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time
+stamps to nanosecond resolution.
+
+* The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution,
+not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns.
+Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much.
+
+* Bugfixes
+
+** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options.
+** When extracting or listing archives in old GNU format, tar
+used to read an extra block of data after a long name header
+if length of the member name was divisible by block size (512).
+Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member
+was not processed correctly.
+** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
+during reading.
+** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
-User-visible changes since 1.11.1:
+\f
+version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
-o Changes in backup scripts
- - cleaned up considerably; notices error conditions better over rsh
- - DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in backup-specs
- - new file dump-remind is an example of a DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT
-o Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
-o Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
-o New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
- of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
- compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
- now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
-o Several error messages are cleaned up.
-o Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
-o Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
- for --info-script.
-o Behave better with broken rmt servers.
-o Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
-o Several Makefile cleanups.
+This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused
+tar to refuse to extract files from standard input.
\f
-==============
-Version 1.11.1
-User-visible changes since 1.11:
+version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
+
+* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer
+necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can
+now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
+
+* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
+prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
+from being purged.
+
+With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
+incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
+would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
+back up. This change fixes the bug.
+
+* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
+the GNU convention.
+
+* Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports
+seeks.
+
+* Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
+or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
+
+* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
+the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
+
+* New option --exclude-caches instructs tar to exclude cache directories
+automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those
+containing a standardized tag file, as specified at:
+
+ http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
+
+* New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to
+the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
+introduced in version 1.14
+
+* New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory
+where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying
+--libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it
+also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if
+--enable-backup-scripts was given).
+
+* Bugfixes:
+** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
+** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
+** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
+Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
+** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
+previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
+were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
+lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
+extracted copy in such cases.
+** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option (which
+didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect).
+** Fixed verification of created archives.
+** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous
+versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
+** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous
+versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes.
-o Many bug fixes
+\f
+version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11
+
+* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
+* New option --format allows to select the output archive format
+* The default output format can be selected at configuration time
+ by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
+ Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
+* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
+ path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
+
+* New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir
+ option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
+ the previous default behavior.
+
+* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
+ does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
+ with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
+ --old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed
+ in future.
+
+* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped
+ for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
+ The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
+ with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
+ the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
+
+* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of
+ the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
+ files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
+ option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named
+ file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename'
+ extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
+ and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
+
+* New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX
+ keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax'
+ -o option.
+
+* --incremental and --listed-incremental options work correctly on
+ individual files, as well as on directories.
+
+* New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore.
+The scripts are compiled and installed if --enable-backup-scripts
+option is given to configure.
+
+* By default tar searches "rmt" utility in "$prefix/libexec/rmt",
+which is consistent with the location where the version of "rmt"
+included in the package is installed. Previous versions of tar
+used "/etc/rmt". To install "rmt" to its traditional location,
+run configure with option --libexecdir=/etc. Otherwise, if you
+already have rmt installed and wish to use it, instead of the
+shipped in version, set the variable DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND to
+the full path name of the utility, e.g. ./configure
+DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt.
+
+Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to
+use can be set at runtime, by giving option --rmt-command to
+tar.
+
+* Removed obsolete command line options:
+** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
+** --block-compress is not needed any longer
+** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor
+** --modification-time superseded by --touch
+** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records
+** --record-number superseded by --block-number
+** --version-control superseded by --backup
+
+* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
+ hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
+ (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
+ The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+
+* Bug fixes.
\f
-============
-Version 1.11
-User-visible changes since 1.10:
+version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
-o Many bug fixes
+* Bug fixes.
-o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
+\f
+version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22
-o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
- will eventually be removed.
+* New option --overwrite-dir.
+* Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
+* The message translations for Korean are available again.
-o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
- and causes -C to be ignored.
+\f
+version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13
-o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
- they are added to the archive.
+* Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes.
-o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
- the exit status.
+\f
+version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29
+
+* Bug fixes.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28
-o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
- being read or written.
+* Porting and copyright notice fixes.
-o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
- omitted from the archive.
+\f
+version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27
-o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
- end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
+* Some bugs were fixed:
+ - security problems
+ - hard links to symbolic links
-o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
- not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
+* New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion.
-o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
- the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
- around to the beginning.
+* New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards,
+ --wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored).
+ Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how
+ exclude patterns are interpreted.
-o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
- `:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
- then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
+* The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored
+ --no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash.
+ This is a quiet change to the semantics of --exclude. The previous
+ semantics were a failed attempt at backward compatibility but it
+ became clear that the semantics were puzzling and did not satisfy
+ everybody. Rather than continue to try to revive that dead horse we
+ thought it better to substitute cleaner semantics, with options so
+ that you can change the behavior more to your liking.
-o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
- original values after dumping the file.
+* New message translations for Indonesian and Turkish.
+ The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
+ It will be reissued once those are fixed.
-o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
- to dump.
+\f
+version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
-o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
- modification and access times.
+* The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
+ Eventually it is planned to be reintroduced, with the same meaning as -T.
-o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
- precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
- longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
- long names to work.
+* With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken
+ to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date.
\f
-=============
-Version 1.10:
-User-visible changes since 1.09:
+version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
+
+* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
+ files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe
+ option like --absolute-names or --overwrite.
+
+* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
+ and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
+
+* The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
+
+* The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options.
+
+* The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
+
+* The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly.
+
+* Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS.
+ The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old.
-Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
-Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
+* New language supported: da.
--g is now +incremental
--G is now +listed-incremental
+* Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported.
+ If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead.
-Sparse files now work correctly.
+* This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later.
+ Please see <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.
+
+* `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
+
+* `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
+* Diagnostic messages have been made more regular and consistent.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
+
+* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
+ extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file
+ before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the
+ link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one
+ exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are
+ their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some
+ longstanding security problems.
+
+ The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
+
+ For regular files, tar implements this change by using the O_EXCL
+ option of `open' to ensure that it creates the file; if this fails, it
+ removes the file and tries again. This is similar to the behavior of
+ the --unlink-first option, but it is faster in the common case of
+ extracting a new directory.
+
+* By default, tar now ignores file names containing a component of `..'
+ when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
+ To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
+
+* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
+ correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
+
+* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
+ that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
+ locale when restoring a backup. This is needed for proper support
+ of multibyte characters. Old-format files can still be read, and
+ older versions of GNU tar can read new-format files, unless member
+ names have multibyte chars.
+
+* Many diagnostics have been changed slightly, so that file names are
+ now output unambiguously. File names in diagnostics now are either
+ `quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
+ colon, newline, or space, depending on context. Unprintable
+ characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
+ Terminating characters (e.g. close-quote, colon, newline)
+ are also escaped as needed.
+
+* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
+ Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
+
+* If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.
+ Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
+
+* New translations ja, pt_BR.
+* New options --help and --version for rmt.
+* Ignore Solaris door files when creating an archive.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-10-11.
+
+* Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings.
+* `tar --version' output conforms to the latest GNU coding standards.
+* If you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1.
+* `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
-+volume is now called +label.
+* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
-+exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
-+exclude used to do.
+* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
-Exit status is now correct.
+* --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value.
-+totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
+* `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header
+ values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8
+ format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time
+ stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar
+ archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of
+ GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old
+ behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values,
+ and which rejects large files.
-When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
+* On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in
+ the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T -
+ 2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit
+ time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning.
-New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
-you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
-instead of waiting for a write error.
+* `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering
+ that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract
+ as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage.
+
+* A read error now causes a nonzero exit status, not just a warning.
+
+* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
+
+* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
+ for compatibility with paxutils.
+
+* -T /dev/null now matches nothing; previously, it matched anything
+ if no explicit operands were given.
+
+* The `--' option now works the same as with other GNU utilities;
+ it causes later operands to be interpreted as file names, not options,
+ even if they begin with `-'.
+
+* For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone
+ abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice.
+ Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are
+ not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use
+ numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
+ `EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
+
+* `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
+ out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This
+ change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.]
+
+\f
+version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.
+
+* `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one.
+ POSIX.1 requires this, and some other `tar' implementations check for it.
+
+* `tar' no longer silently accepts a block containing nonzero checksum bytes
+ as a zero block.
+
+* `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a
+ numeric header field.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16.
+
+* For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories
+ created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of
+ the original file or directory.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14.
+
+* --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options.
+
+* When creating an archive, leading `./' is no longer stripped,
+ to match traditional tar's behavior (and simplify the documentation).
+
+* --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
+
+* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
+ initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to
+ exclude a file if it matches any file name component.
+
+* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
+ Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
+ The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
+ when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
+ The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
+ for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
+
+* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64
+ for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal.
+ This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes),
+ larger uids, negative time stamps, etc.
+
+* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
+ uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
+ and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody".
+
+* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic.
+
+* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
-New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
-people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
-need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
-at the FSF.
+* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
+
+* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
+ this matches historical practice.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
+
+* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
+ excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
+ Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
+
+* Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
+
+\f
+version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
+
+* Bug fixes only.
+\f
+version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
+
+* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
+ Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
+* Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
+* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
+ with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/
+ The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
+ at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
+* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
+ but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
+ Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
+\f
+Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
+
+Sensitive matters
+* Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
+* Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
+
+Output for humans
+* Offer internationalization capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
+* Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
+* Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
+* More normalization and cleanup in error messages.
+
+Creation
+* For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
+* Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
+* New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
+* Recognize creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
+* Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
+* Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
+
+Extraction
+* Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
+* Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
+* Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
+* Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
+* Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
+* Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
+* When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
+* Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
+* New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
+
+Various changes
+* Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
+* Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
+* Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
+* Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
+* With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
+* Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
+* Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
+* Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
+
+Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
+\f
+Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
+
+* Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
+* The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
+* The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
+* Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
+* Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
+
+Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
+\f
+Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
+
+* Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
+conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
+backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
+DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
+
+* Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
+
+* Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
+
+* New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
+of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
+compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
+now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
+
+* Several error messages are cleaned up.
+
+* Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
+
+* Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
+for --info-script.
+
+* Behave better with broken rmt servers.
+
+* Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
+
+* Several Makefile cleanups.
+\f
+Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
+
+* Many bug fixes.
+\f
+Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
+Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
+Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
+Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
+Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
+
+* Many bug fixes.
+
+* Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
+
+* Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
+for it will eventually be removed.
+
+* New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
+null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
+
+* New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
+after they are added to the archive.
+
+* New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
+the exit status.
+
+* New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
+is being read or written.
+
+* New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
+omitted from the archive.
+
+* Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
+end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
+
+* --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
+(but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
+
+* When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
+the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
+around to the beginning.
+
+* Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
+`:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
+then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
+
+* New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
+their original values after dumping the file.
+
+* No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
+what to dump.
+
+* When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
+modification and access times.
+
+* Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
+precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
+longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
+long names to work.
+\f
+Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
+
+* Filename to -G is optional. -C works right. Names +newer and
++newer-mtime work right.
+
+* -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
+
+* Sparse files now work correctly.
+
+* +volume is now called +label.
+
+* +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
+what +exclude used to do.
+
+* Exit status is now correct.
+
+* +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
+
+* When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
+
+* New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
+dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
+point instead of waiting for a write error.
+
+* New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
+to people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
+shouldn't need local modification. These are what we use to do
+all our backups at the FSF.
+\f
+Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
+Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
+Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
+
+* See ChangeLog for more details.
+
+\f
+
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU tar.
+
+GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end:
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