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README

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-This GNU tar 1.10.  Please send bug reports, etc., to
-bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.  
+Hey!  Emacs!  Yo!  This is -*- Text -*- !!!
+
+This GNU tar 1.11.  Please send bug reports, etc., to
+bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.  This is a beta-test release.  Please
+try it out.  After bug reports are processed for this release, version
+1.12 will be released.
 
 GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
 added features.  The manual is currently being written.  An old
@@ -18,33 +22,65 @@ Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
 I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
 problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
 
+If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
+scripts.  They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups.  Most
+importantly, do not use +incremental (-G) or +after-date (-N) or
++newer-mtime to do incremental dumps.  The only option that works
+correctly for this purpose is +listed-incremental.  (When extracting
+incremental dumps, use +incremental (-G).)
 
-User-visible changes since 1.09:
+There is no tar manual in this release.  The old manual has too many
+problems to make it usable.  A new manual will appear in version 1.12.
 
-Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  
-Names newer and --newer-mtime work right.
+User-visible changes since 1.10:
 
--g is now --incremental
--G is now --listed-incremental
+o Many bug fixes
 
-Sparse files now work correctly.
+o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 
---volume is now called --label.
+o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
+  will eventually be removed.
 
---exclude now takes a filename argument, and --exclude-from does what
---exclude used to do.
+o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
+  and causes -C to be ignored.
 
-Exit status is now correct.
+o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
+  they are added to the archive.
 
---totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
+o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
+  the exit status.
 
-When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
+o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
+  being read or written.
 
-New option --tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
-you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
-instead of waiting for a write error.
+o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
+  omitted from the archive.
+
+o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
+  end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
+
+o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
+  not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
+
+o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
+  the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
+  around to the beginning.
+
+o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
+  `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
+  then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
+
+o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
+  original values after dumping the file.
+
+o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
+  to dump.
+
+o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
+  modification and access times.
+
+o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
+  precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
+  longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
+  long names to work.
 
-New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
-people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
-need local modification.  These are what we use to do all our backups
-at the FSF.