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- This GNU tar 1.10. Please send bug reports, etc., to
- bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
- GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
- added features. The manual is currently being written. An old
- manual, surely riddled with errors, is in tar.texinfo. Please don't
- send in bug reports about that manual. In particular, the mechanism
- for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed.
- This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
- must reside in /etc). The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
- See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
- makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.
- Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
- I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
- problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
- User-visible changes since 1.09:
- Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
- Names newer and --newer-mtime work right.
- -g is now --incremental
- -G is now --listed-incremental
- Sparse files now work correctly.
- --volume is now called --label.
- --exclude now takes a filename argument, and --exclude-from does what
- --exclude used to do.
- Exit status is now correct.
- --totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
- When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
- New option --tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
- you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
- instead of waiting for a write error.
- New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
- people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
- need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
- at the FSF.
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