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-This GNU tar 1.10. Please send bug reports, etc., to
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-bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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+Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!!
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+
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+This GNU tar 1.11. 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.
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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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@@ -18,33 +22,65 @@ Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
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I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
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problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
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+If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
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+scripts. They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups. Most
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+importantly, do not use +incremental (-G) or +after-date (-N) or
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++newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works
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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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+
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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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+
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+User-visible changes since 1.10:
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+
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+o Many bug fixes
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+
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+o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
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+
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+o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it
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+ will eventually be removed.
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+
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+o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated,
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+ and causes -C to be ignored.
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+
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+o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after
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+ they are added to the archive.
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+
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+o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
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+ the exit status.
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-User-visible changes since 1.09:
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+o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is
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+ being read or written.
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-Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
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-Names newer and --newer-mtime work right.
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+o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
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+ omitted from the archive.
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--g is now --incremental
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--G is now --listed-incremental
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+o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
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+ end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
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-Sparse files now work correctly.
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+o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but
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+ not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
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---volume is now called --label.
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+o When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
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+ the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
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+ around to the beginning.
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---exclude now takes a filename argument, and --exclude-from does what
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---exclude used to do.
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+o Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
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+ `:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
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+ then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
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-Exit status is now correct.
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+o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their
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+ original values after dumping the file.
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---totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
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+o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what
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+ to dump.
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-When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
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+o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
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+ modification and access times.
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-New option --tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
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-you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
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-instead of waiting for a write error.
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+o Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
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+ precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
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+ longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
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+ long names to work.
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-New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
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-people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
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-need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
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-at the FSF.
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