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+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>
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-version 1.14.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, <DATE>
+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.
+
+\f
+version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
+
+This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused
+tar to refuse to extract files from standard input.
+
+\f
+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
automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those
containing a standardized tag file, as specified at:
- http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
+ 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
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.
-** Fixed verification of the created archives.
-** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous
+** 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.
+
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version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11
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
+* 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
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.
-
+tar.
+
* Removed obsolete command line options:
** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
** --block-compress is not needed any longer
* 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.
+ The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
* Bug fixes.
The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
It will be reissued once those are fixed.
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version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
* The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
* 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.
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version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
* 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.
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* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
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+\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.
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version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
* New translations ja, pt_BR.
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