@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
+Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual'',
and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
+is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
+License''.
(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to
copy and modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF
* Tar Internals::
* Genfile::
* Free Software Needs Free Documentation::
-* Copying This Manual::
+* GNU Free Documentation License::
* Index of Command Line Options::
* Index::
@item --check-device
Check device numbers when creating a list of modified files for
incremental archiving. This is the default. @xref{device numbers},
-for a detailed description.
+for a detailed description.
@opsummary{checkpoint}
@item --checkpoint[=@var{number}]
@item --no-check-device
Do not check device numbers when creating a list of modified files
for incremental archiving. @xref{device numbers}, for
-a detailed description.
+a detailed description.
@opsummary{no-delay-directory-restore}
@item --no-delay-directory-restore
@samp{Current %s is newer or same age}
@kwindex unknown-keyword
@cindex @samp{Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `%s'}, warning message
-@item unknown-keyword
+@item unknown-keyword
@samp{Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `%s'}
@end table
Other operations don't deal with these members as perfectly as you might
prefer; if you were to use @option{--extract} to extract the archive,
-only the most recently added copy of a member with the same name as
+only the most recently added copy of a member with the same name as
other members would end up in the working directory. This is because
@option{--extract} extracts an archive in the order the members appeared
in the archive; the most recently archived members will be extracted
@group
$ @kbd{tar --directory sourcedir --create --file=- . \
| tar --directory targetdir --extract --file=-}
-@end group
+@end group
@end smallexample
@noindent
Some users are enthusiastic about @code{Amanda} (The Advanced Maryland
Automatic Network Disk Archiver), a backup system developed by James
da Silva @file{jds@@cs.umd.edu} and available on many Unix systems.
-This is free software, and it is available from @uref{http://www.amanda.org}.
+This is free software, and it is available from @uref{http://www.amanda.org}.
@FIXME{
for an incremental dump. This is the default behavior. The purpose
of this option is to undo the effect of the @option{--no-check-device}
if it was given in @env{TAR_OPTIONS} environment variable
-(@pxref{TAR_OPTIONS}).
+(@pxref{TAR_OPTIONS}).
@end table
There is also another way to cope with changing device numbers. It is
a wide variety of compression programs, namely: @command{gzip},
@command{bzip2}, @command{lzip}, @command{lzma}, @command{lzop},
@command{xz} and traditional @command{compress}. The latter is
-supported mostly for backward compatibility, and we recommend
+supported mostly for backward compatibility, and we recommend
against using it, because it is by far less effective than the other
compression programs@footnote{It also had patent problems in the past.}.
create a @command{gzip} compressed archive, @option{-j}
(@option{--bzip2}) to create a @command{bzip2} compressed archive,
@option{--lzip} to create an @asis{lzip} compressed archive,
-@option{-J} (@option{--xz}) to create an @asis{XZ} archive,
+@option{-J} (@option{--xz}) to create an @asis{XZ} archive,
@option{--lzma} to create an @asis{LZMA} compressed
archive, @option{--lzop} to create an @asis{LSOP} archive, and
@option{-Z} (@option{--compress}) to use @command{compress} program.
You can use any of these options on physical devices (tape drives,
etc.) and remote files as well as on normal files; data to or from
such devices or remote files is reblocked by another copy of the
-@command{tar} program to enforce the specified (or default) record
+@command{tar} program to enforce the specified (or default) record
size. The default compression parameters are used. Most compression
programs allow to override these by setting a program-specific
environment variable. For example, when using @command{gzip} you can
-j, --bzip2 filter the archive through lbzip2
@end group
@end smallexample
-
+
@noindent
which means that running @command{tar --bzip2} will invoke @command{lbzip2}.
@appendix Free Software Needs Free Documentation
@include freemanuals.texi
-@node Copying This Manual
-@appendix Copying This Manual
-
-@menu
-* GNU Free Documentation License:: License for copying this manual
-@end menu
+@node GNU Free Documentation License
+@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
@include fdl.texi
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