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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
* 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 maches any file name compoment.
* 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
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.
* 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.
* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody".
* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic.
* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
this matches historical practice.
* Bug fixes.
version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
* Bug fixes.
Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
* Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
* Bug fixes.
version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
* Bug fixes.
* Bug fixes only.
version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.