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This GNU tar 1.10. Please send bug reports, etc., to
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bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
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added features. The manual is currently being written. An old
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manual, surely riddled with errors, is in tar.texinfo. Please don't
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send in bug reports about that manual. In particular, the mechanism
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for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed.
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This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
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must reside in /etc). The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
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See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
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makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.
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Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
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I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
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problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
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User-visible changes since 1.09:
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Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
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Names newer and --newer-mtime work right.
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-g is now --incremental
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-G is now --listed-incremental
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Sparse files now work correctly.
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--volume is now called --label.
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--exclude now takes a filename argument, and --exclude-from does what
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--exclude used to do.
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Exit status is now correct.
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--totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
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When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
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New option --tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
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you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
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instead of waiting for a write error.
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New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
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people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
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need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
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at the FSF.
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