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- Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!!
- This GNU tar 1.11. Please send bug reports, etc., to
- bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. Please
- try it out. After bug reports are processed for this release, version
- 1.12 will be released.
- 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
- normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is
- in the GNU cpio distribution.
- See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
- See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version
- of tar.
- 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.
- If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
- scripts. They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups. Most
- importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or
- --newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works
- correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental. (When extracting
- incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).)
- There is no tar manual in this release. The old manual has too many
- problems to make it usable. A new manual will appear in version 1.12.
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