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Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!!
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-This GNU tar 1.11.1. Please send bug reports, etc., to
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+This GNU tar 1.11.2. 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. This release includes only bugfixes past
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-version 1.11, most of which are fairly important.
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+try it out. There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will
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+contain a manual.
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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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+added features. The manual is currently being written.
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This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
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normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is
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@@ -33,9 +29,6 @@ importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or
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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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If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has
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rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might
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give you an incorrect version of rename. On HP-UX this manifests
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François Pinard