Describe changes since 1.12.

[chaz/tar] / README

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@@ -1,19 +1,3 @@
-This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large
-file environments like Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 that rely on integer
-system types longer than `long'.  Ordinary GNU `tar' 1.12 cannot handle
-files larger than 2 GB when compiled in such environments.  This port
-addresses that problem, and fixes some other well-known bugs in GNU tar 1.12.
-Please send bug reports specific to this unofficial version of GNU `tar'
-to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
-
-This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's
-just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for
-Large File Summit hosts like Solaris 2.6.  The patches of this
-release have all been submitted via the usual channels and
-they should no longer be needed once the next official release
-of GNU tar is out.
-
-
 Please glance through *all* sections of this
 `README' file before starting configuration.  Also make sure you read files
 `ABOUT-NLS' and `INSTALL' if you are not familiar with them already.
@@ -59,7 +43,7 @@ and only then, Autoconf 2.13 or later.  Install Perl, then Automake
 All are available on GNU archive sites, like in
 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/.
 
-Send bug reports to `tar-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu'.  (Beware, old-timers: it is
+Send bug reports to `tar-bugs@gnu.org'.  (Beware, old-timers: it is
 `@gnu', not `@prep'; and not `bug-gnu-utils' anymore.)  A bug report is
 an adequate description of the problem: your input, what you expected,
 what you got, and why this is wrong.  Diffs are welcome, but they only