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Paul Eggert
1999-08-23 09:55:55 +00:00
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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
for compatibility with paxutils.
* -T /dev/null now matches nothing; previously, it matched anything
if no explicit operands were given.
* The `--' option now works the same as with other GNU utilities;
it causes later operands to be interpreted as file names, not options,
even if they begin with `-'.
* For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone
abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice.
Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are
not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, thougy, that you should use
numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
`EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
* `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. This
affects archive members with negative timestamps or uids, and
affects archive members with negative time stamps or uids, and
archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar archives cannot be read
by traditional tar, or by older versions of GNU tar. Use the
--old-archive option to revert to the old behavior, which uses
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* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to
exclude a file if it matches any file name compoment.
exclude a file if it matches any file name component.
* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
@@ -57,7 +77,7 @@ version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64
for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal.
This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes),
larger uids, negative timestamps, etc.
larger uids, negative time stamps, etc.
* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
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* Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
Output for humans
* Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
* Offer internationalization capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
* Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
* Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
* More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
* More normalization and cleanup in error messages.
Creation
* For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
* Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
* New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
* Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
* Recognize creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
* Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
* Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.