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[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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@@ -18,10 +18,22 @@ 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.
@@ -30,6 +42,9 @@ 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.
 
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 version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
@@ -692,8 +707,8 @@ 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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