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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+version 1.12.lfs.1 - Paul Eggert, 1998-02.
+
+This version is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large File
+Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer system
+types longer than `long'. Please send bug reports specific to this
+unofficial version of GNU `tar' to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
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Paul Eggert