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Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!!
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This GNU tar 1.11. Please send bug reports, etc., to
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bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. Please
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try it out. After bug reports are processed for this release, version
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1.12 will be released.
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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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If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
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scripts. They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups. Most
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importantly, do not use +incremental (-G) or +after-date (-N) or
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+newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works
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correctly for this purpose is +listed-incremental. (When extracting
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incremental dumps, use +incremental (-G).)
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There is no tar manual in this release. The old manual has too many
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problems to make it usable. A new manual will appear in version 1.12.
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User-visible changes since 1.10:
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o Many bug fixes
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o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
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o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
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will eventually be removed.
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o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
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and causes -C to be ignored.
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o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
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they are added to the archive.
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o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
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the exit status.
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o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
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being read or written.
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o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
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omitted from the archive.
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o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
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end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
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o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
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not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
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o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
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the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
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around to the beginning.
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o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
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`:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
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then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
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o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
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original values after dumping the file.
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o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
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to dump.
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o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
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modification and access times.
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o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
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precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
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longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
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long names to work.
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