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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
version 1.12.64016 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-01.
version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-02.
* 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.
* This release is intended only as a bugfix release. A more ambitious version,
with new features, is also available as part of paxutils. Please see:
* 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/
The bug fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
at some point, but they haven't been merged as of this writing.
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,
but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.