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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Copyright 1994-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe
option like --absolute-names or --overwrite.
* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
* The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
* The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options.
* The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
* The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly.
* Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS.
The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old.
* New language supported: da.
* Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported.
If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead.
* This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later.
Please see <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.
* `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
* `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
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version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite existing files when
extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes them before
extracting. There is one exception: existing nonempty directories
are not removed, nor are their ownerships or permissions extracted.
This fixes some longstanding security problems.
* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file
before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the
link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one
exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are
their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some
longstanding security problems.
The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
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* 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.
@@ -213,7 +245,7 @@ version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
* Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/
The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,