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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
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Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end for copying conditions.
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Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
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* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer
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necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can
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now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
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* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
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prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
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from being purged.
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With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
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incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
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would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
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back up. This change fixes the bug.
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* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
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the GNU convention.
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* Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports
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seeks.
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* Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
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or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
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* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
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the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
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* New option --exclude-caches instructs tar to exclude cache directories
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automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those
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containing a standardized tag file, as specified at:
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http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
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* New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to
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the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
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introduced in version 1.14
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* New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory
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where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying
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--libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it
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also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if
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--enable-backup-scripts was given).
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* Bugfixes:
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** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
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** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
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** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
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Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
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** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
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previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
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were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
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lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
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extracted copy in such cases.
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** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option (which
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didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect).
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** Fixed verification of created archives.
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** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous
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versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
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** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous
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versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes.
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version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11
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* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
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* New option --format allows to select the output archive format
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* The default output format can be selected at configuration time
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by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
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Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
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* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
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path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
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* New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir
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option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
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the previous default behavior.
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* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
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does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
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with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
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--old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed
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in future.
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* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped
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for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
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The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
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with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
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the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
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* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of
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the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
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files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
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option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named
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file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename'
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extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
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and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
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* New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX
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keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax'
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-o option.
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* --incremental and --listed-incremental options work correctly on
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individual files, as well as on directories.
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* New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore.
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The scripts are compiled and installed if --enable-backup-scripts
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option is given to configure.
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* By default tar searches "rmt" utility in "$prefix/libexec/rmt",
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which is consistent with the location where the version of "rmt"
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included in the package is installed. Previous versions of tar
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used "/etc/rmt". To install "rmt" to its traditional location,
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run configure with option --libexecdir=/etc. Otherwise, if you
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already have rmt installed and wish to use it, instead of the
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shipped in version, set the variable DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND to
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the full path name of the utility, e.g. ./configure
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DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt.
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Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to
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use can be set at runtime, by giving option --rmt-command to
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tar.
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* Removed obsolete command line options:
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** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
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** --block-compress is not needed any longer
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** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor
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** --modification-time superseded by --touch
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** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records
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** --record-number superseded by --block-number
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** --version-control superseded by --backup
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* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
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hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
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(Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
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The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
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* Bug fixes.
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version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
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* Bug fixes.
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version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22
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* New option --overwrite-dir.
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* Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
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* The message translations for Korean are available again.
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version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13
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* Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes.
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version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29
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* Bug fixes.
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version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28
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* Porting and copyright notice fixes.
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version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27
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* Some bugs were fixed:
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- security problems
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- hard links to symbolic links
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* New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion.
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* New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards,
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--wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored).
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Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how
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exclude patterns are interpreted.
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* The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored
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--no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash.
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This is a quiet change to the semantics of --exclude. The previous
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semantics were a failed attempt at backward compatibility but it
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became clear that the semantics were puzzling and did not satisfy
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everybody. Rather than continue to try to revive that dead horse we
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thought it better to substitute cleaner semantics, with options so
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that you can change the behavior more to your liking.
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* New message translations for Indonesian and Turkish.
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The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
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It will be reissued once those are fixed.
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version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
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* The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
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Eventually it is planned to be reintroduced, with the same meaning as -T.
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* With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken
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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
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* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
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files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe
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option like --absolute-names or --overwrite.
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* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
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and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
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* The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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* The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options.
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* The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
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* The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly.
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* Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS.
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The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old.
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* New language supported: da.
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* Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported.
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If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead.
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* This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later.
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Please see <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.
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* `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
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version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
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* `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
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* Diagnostic messages have been made more regular and consistent.
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version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
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* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
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extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file
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before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the
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link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one
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exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are
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their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some
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longstanding security problems.
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The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
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For regular files, tar implements this change by using the O_EXCL
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option of `open' to ensure that it creates the file; if this fails, it
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removes the file and tries again. This is similar to the behavior of
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the --unlink-first option, but it is faster in the common case of
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extracting a new directory.
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* By default, tar now ignores file names containing a component of `..'
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when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
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To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
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* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
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correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
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* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
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that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
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locale when restoring a backup. This is needed for proper support
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of multibyte characters. Old-format files can still be read, and
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older versions of GNU tar can read new-format files, unless member
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names have multibyte chars.
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* Many diagnostics have been changed slightly, so that file names are
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now output unambiguously. File names in diagnostics now are either
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`quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
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colon, newline, or space, depending on context. Unprintable
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characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
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Terminating characters (e.g. close-quote, colon, newline)
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are also escaped as needed.
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* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
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Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
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version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
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* If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.
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Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors.
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version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
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* New translations ja, pt_BR.
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* New options --help and --version for rmt.
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* Ignore Solaris door files when creating an archive.
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version 1.13.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-10-11.
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* Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings.
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* `tar --version' output conforms to the latest GNU coding standards.
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* If you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1.
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* `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
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version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
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* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
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* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
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* --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value.
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* `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header
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values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8
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format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time
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stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar
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archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of
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GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old
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behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values,
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and which rejects large files.
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* On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in
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the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T -
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2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit
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time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning.
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* `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering
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that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract
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as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage.
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* A read error now causes a nonzero exit status, not just a warning.
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* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
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version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
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* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
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for compatibility with paxutils.
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* -T /dev/null now matches nothing; previously, it matched anything
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if no explicit operands were given.
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* The `--' option now works the same as with other GNU utilities;
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it causes later operands to be interpreted as file names, not options,
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even if they begin with `-'.
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* For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone
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abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice.
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Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are
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not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use
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numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
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`EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
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version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
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* `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
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out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This
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change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.]
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version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.
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* `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one.
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POSIX.1 requires this, and some other `tar' implementations check for it.
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* `tar' no longer silently accepts a block containing nonzero checksum bytes
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as a zero block.
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* `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a
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numeric header field.
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version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16.
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* For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories
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created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of
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the original file or directory.
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version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14.
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* --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options.
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* When creating an archive, leading `./' is no longer stripped,
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to match traditional tar's behavior (and simplify the documentation).
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* --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names.
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version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
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* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
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initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to
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exclude a file if it matches any file name component.
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* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
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Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
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The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
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when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
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The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
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for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
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* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64
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for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal.
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This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes),
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larger uids, negative time stamps, etc.
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* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
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uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
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and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody".
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* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic.
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* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
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version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
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* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
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version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
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* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
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this matches historical practice.
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version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
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* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
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excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
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Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
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version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
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* Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
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version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
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* Bug fixes only.
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version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
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* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
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Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
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* Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
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* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
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with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
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ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/
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The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
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at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
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* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
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but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
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Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
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Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
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Sensitive matters
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* Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
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* Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
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Output for humans
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* Offer internationalization capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
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* Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
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* Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
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* More normalization and cleanup in error messages.
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Creation
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* For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
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* Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
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* New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
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* Recognize creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
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* Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
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* Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
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Extraction
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* Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
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* Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
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* Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
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* Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
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| 491 |
* Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
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* Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
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* When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
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* Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
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* New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
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| 496 |
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Various changes
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| 498 |
* Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
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| 499 |
* Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
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| 500 |
* Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
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| 501 |
* Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
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| 502 |
* With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
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| 503 |
* Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
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| 504 |
* Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
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| 505 |
* Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
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| 506 |
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| 507 |
Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
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| 508 |
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| 509 |
Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
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| 510 |
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* Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
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| 512 |
* The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
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* The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
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* Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
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| 515 |
* Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
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| 516 |
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Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
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| 518 |
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| 519 |
Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
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| 520 |
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| 521 |
* Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
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| 522 |
conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
|
| 523 |
backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
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| 524 |
DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
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| 525 |
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| 526 |
* Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
|
| 527 |
|
| 528 |
* Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
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| 529 |
|
| 530 |
* New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
|
| 531 |
of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
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| 532 |
compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
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| 533 |
now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
|
| 534 |
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| 535 |
* Several error messages are cleaned up.
|
| 536 |
|
| 537 |
* Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
|
| 538 |
|
| 539 |
* Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
|
| 540 |
for --info-script.
|
| 541 |
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| 542 |
* Behave better with broken rmt servers.
|
| 543 |
|
| 544 |
* Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
|
| 545 |
|
| 546 |
* Several Makefile cleanups.
|
| 547 |
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| 548 |
Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
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| 549 |
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| 550 |
* Many bug fixes.
|
| 551 |
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| 552 |
Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
|
| 553 |
Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
|
| 554 |
Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
|
| 555 |
Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
|
| 556 |
Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
|
| 557 |
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| 558 |
* Many bug fixes.
|
| 559 |
|
| 560 |
* Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
|
| 561 |
|
| 562 |
* Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
|
| 563 |
for it will eventually be removed.
|
| 564 |
|
| 565 |
* New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
|
| 566 |
null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
|
| 567 |
|
| 568 |
* New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
|
| 569 |
after they are added to the archive.
|
| 570 |
|
| 571 |
* New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
|
| 572 |
the exit status.
|
| 573 |
|
| 574 |
* New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
|
| 575 |
is being read or written.
|
| 576 |
|
| 577 |
* New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
|
| 578 |
omitted from the archive.
|
| 579 |
|
| 580 |
* Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
|
| 581 |
end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
|
| 582 |
|
| 583 |
* --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
|
| 584 |
(but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
|
| 585 |
|
| 586 |
* When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
|
| 587 |
the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
|
| 588 |
around to the beginning.
|
| 589 |
|
| 590 |
* Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
|
| 591 |
`:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
|
| 592 |
then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
|
| 593 |
|
| 594 |
* New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
|
| 595 |
their original values after dumping the file.
|
| 596 |
|
| 597 |
* No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
|
| 598 |
what to dump.
|
| 599 |
|
| 600 |
* When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
|
| 601 |
modification and access times.
|
| 602 |
|
| 603 |
* Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
|
| 604 |
precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
|
| 605 |
longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
|
| 606 |
long names to work.
|
| 607 |
|
| 608 |
Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
|
| 609 |
|
| 610 |
* Filename to -G is optional. -C works right. Names +newer and
|
| 611 |
+newer-mtime work right.
|
| 612 |
|
| 613 |
* -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
|
| 614 |
|
| 615 |
* Sparse files now work correctly.
|
| 616 |
|
| 617 |
* +volume is now called +label.
|
| 618 |
|
| 619 |
* +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
|
| 620 |
what +exclude used to do.
|
| 621 |
|
| 622 |
* Exit status is now correct.
|
| 623 |
|
| 624 |
* +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
|
| 625 |
|
| 626 |
* When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
|
| 627 |
|
| 628 |
* New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
|
| 629 |
dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
|
| 630 |
point instead of waiting for a write error.
|
| 631 |
|
| 632 |
* New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
|
| 633 |
to people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
|
| 634 |
shouldn't need local modification. These are what we use to do
|
| 635 |
all our backups at the FSF.
|
| 636 |
|
| 637 |
Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
|
| 638 |
Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
|
| 639 |
Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
|
| 640 |
|
| 641 |
* See ChangeLog for more details.
|
| 642 |
|
| 643 |
|
| 644 |
|
| 645 |
Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
|
| 646 |
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|
| 647 |
|
| 648 |
This file is part of GNU tar.
|
| 649 |
|
| 650 |
GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
|
| 651 |
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
|
| 652 |
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
|
| 653 |
any later version.
|
| 654 |
|
| 655 |
GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
|
| 656 |
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
|
| 657 |
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
|
| 658 |
GNU General Public License for more details.
|
| 659 |
|
| 660 |
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
|
| 661 |
along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
|
| 662 |
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
|
| 663 |
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
|
| 664 |
|
| 665 |
Local variables:
|
| 666 |
mode: outline
|
| 667 |
paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
|
| 668 |
end:
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