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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
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Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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+version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
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+* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
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+ initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to
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+ exclude a file if it maches any file name compoment.
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+* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
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+ Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
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+ The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC" is for portability
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+ when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
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+ The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
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+ for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
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+* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64
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+ for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal.
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+ This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes),
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+ larger uids, negative timestamps, etc.
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+* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
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+ uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
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+ and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody".
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+* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic.
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+* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
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version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
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* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
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version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
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* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
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this matches historical practice.
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-* Bug fixes.
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version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
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* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
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excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
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-* Bug fixes.
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+ Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
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version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
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* Bug reporting address changed to <[email protected]>.
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-* Bug fixes.
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version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
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-* Bug fixes.
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+* Bug fixes only.
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version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
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Paul Eggert