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Paul Eggert
2005-11-07 00:25:52 +00:00
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@@ -10,19 +10,19 @@ version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased)
* New features
* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in command line.
* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in the command line.
The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
including another -T option.
Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C
as option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name
starts with - is handled as option. To insert file names starting with
dash, use --add-file option.
as an option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name
starts with - is handled as an option. To insert file names starting with
dash, use the --add-file option.
* List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
automatically. It is not necessary to give --null option.
automatically. It is no longer necessary to give the --null option.
* New option --no-unquote disables unquoting input file names. This
is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
* New option --no-unquote disables the unquoting of input file names.
This is useful for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
* New option --test-label tests the archive volume label.
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ If an argument is specified, the label is compared against its value.
Tar exits with code 0 if the two strings match, and with code 2 if
they do not.
If no argument is given, --verbose option is implied. In this case,
tar prints the label name, if it is present and exits with code 0.
If no argument is given, the --verbose option is implied. In this case,
tar prints the label name if present and exits with code 0.
* New option --show-stored-names. When creating archive in verbose mode,
lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e. with any eventual
* New option --show-stored-names. When creating an archive in verbose mode,
it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing
`tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ stamps to nanosecond resolution.
not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns.
Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much.
* Bugfixes
* Bug fixes
** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options.
** When extracting or listing archives in old GNU format, tar
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ containing a standardized tag file, as specified at:
http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
* New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to
the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
the `rmt' utility. This supersedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
introduced in version 1.14
* New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying
also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if
--enable-backup-scripts was given).
* Bugfixes:
* Bug fixes:
** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ used "/etc/rmt". To install "rmt" to its traditional location,
run configure with option --libexecdir=/etc. Otherwise, if you
already have rmt installed and wish to use it, instead of the
shipped in version, set the variable DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND to
the full path name of the utility, e.g. ./configure
the full path name of the utility, e.g., ./configure
DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt.
Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g., UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
`quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
colon, newline, or space, depending on context. Unprintable
characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
Terminating characters (e.g. close-quote, colon, newline)
Terminating characters (e.g., close-quote, colon, newline)
are also escaped as needed.
* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
The symbolic format (e.g., "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
* Support for large files, e.g., files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
* Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,