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-From: Roesinger Eric <ROESINGE@tce.com>
-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500
+Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 
-It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
-to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
+* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de>
+
+* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
+
+* Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution,
+  if the file system supports this.
+
+* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for
+  OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions.
+
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
+
+* Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
+  This would unify paxutils with tar.
+
+* Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
+
+* Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.
+
+  From: Roesinger Eric <ROESINGE@tce.com>
+  Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500
+
+  It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
+  to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
+
+* Add tests for the new functonality.
+
+* Consider this:
+
+  From: Dennis Pund
+  Subject: TAR suggestion...
+  Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
+
+  What I would like to do is:
+
+  foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
+
+  where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
+  to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
+
+  (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
+
+\f
+* Copyright notice
+
+Copyright 2003-2004, 2007, 2013-2014 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 3 of the License, 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 this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+\f
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