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Paul Eggert
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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
* --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value.
* `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header
values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8
format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time
stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar
archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of
GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old
behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values,
and which rejects large files.
* On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in
the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T -
2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit
time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning.
* `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering
that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract
as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage.
* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
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* For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone
abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice.
Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are
not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, thougy, that you should use
not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use
numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
`EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
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version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
* `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. This
affects archive members with negative time stamps or uids, and
archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar archives cannot be read
by traditional tar, or by older versions of GNU tar. Use the
--old-archive option to revert to the old behavior, which uses
unportable representations for negative values, and which rejects
large files.
out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This
change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.]
version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.