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`README' file before starting configuration. Also make sure you read files
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`ABOUT-NLS' and `INSTALL' if you are not familiar with them already.
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-If you got the `tar' distribution in `shar' format, timestamps ought to be
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-properly restored, do not ignore such complaints at `unshar' time.
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+If you got the `tar' distribution in `shar' format, time stamps ought to be
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+properly restored; do not ignore such complaints at `unshar' time.
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GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk
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archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes
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@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ to a value from the table below, before configuration (see `INSTALL').
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* Failed `incremen.sh'.
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-In an NFS environment, lack of synchronisation between machine clocks
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-might create difficulties to any tool comparing dates and file timestamps,
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+In an NFS environment, lack of synchronization between machine clocks
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+might create difficulties to any tool comparing dates and file time stamps,
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like `tar' in incremental dumps. This has been a recurrent problem in
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GNU Makefiles for the last few years. We would like a general solution.
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@@ -140,13 +140,13 @@ matters. See previous section for such.
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* File attributes.
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About *security*, it is probable that future releases of `tar' will have
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-some behaviour changed. There are many pending suggestions to choose from.
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+some behavior changed. There are many pending suggestions to choose from.
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Today, extracting an archive not being `root', `tar' will restore suid/sgid
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bits on files but owned by the extracting user. `root' automatically gets
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-a lot of special priviledges, `-p' might later become required to get them.
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+a lot of special privileges, `-p' might later become required to get them.
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GNU `tar' does not properly restore symlink attributes. Various systems
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-implement flavours of symbolic links showing different behaviour and
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+implement flavors of symbolic links showing different behavior and
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properties. We did not successfully sorted all these out yet. Currently,
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the `lchown' call will be used if available, but that's all.
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@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ The emphasis from 1.11.2 to 1.12 has been on solving the main portability,
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execution or usability bugs. This was accompanied all over with an
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internal cleanup in the sources, and the reassembly of a `tar' manual.
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-The `BACKLOG' file shows an approximative priorisation of the many pending
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+The `BACKLOG' file shows approximate priorities of the many pending
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problems and suggestions. Besides pending problems and all other matters
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listed above, the cleanup is planned to continue and extend to the general
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-organisation of the code, preparing a long time in advance for a possible
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+organization of the code, preparing a long time in advance for a possible
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merge of the `cpio' and `tar' distributions, into some common `paxutils'.
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We also want to address some long-awaited performance issues (for example:
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double buffering) or enhancements (for example: per-file compression).
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Paul Eggert