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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-07
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+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-08
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Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>
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-version 1.19.1 (CVS)
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+version 1.19.90 (CVS)
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* New option --auto-compress (-a)
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@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1').
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This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a
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checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default),
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-echo=string, and sleep=value. Any number of `--checkpoint-action'
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-options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of
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-their appearance in the command line.
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+echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value. Any number
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+of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be
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+executed in order of their appearance in the command line. See
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+chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description.
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* The --transform option.
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@@ -38,6 +39,9 @@ Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets
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during both creation and extraction. Tar 1.19 used them only
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during extraction.
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+For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member
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+Names".
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* Info (end-of-volume) scripts
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The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
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