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- GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
- Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
- 2004, 2005
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- See the end for copying conditions.
- Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>
- version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased)
- * New features
- * Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in the command line.
- The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
- including another -T option.
- Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C
- as an option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name
- starts with - is handled as an option. To insert file names starting with
- dash, use the --add-file option.
- * List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
- automatically. It is no longer necessary to give the --null option.
- * New option --no-unquote disables the unquoting of input file names.
- This is useful for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
- An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
- * New option --test-label tests the archive volume label.
- If an argument is specified, the label is compared against its value.
- Tar exits with code 0 if the two strings match, and with code 2 if
- they do not.
- If no argument is given, the --verbose option is implied. In this case,
- tar prints the label name if present and exits with code 0.
- * New option --show-stored-names. When creating an archive in verbose mode,
- it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
- prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing
- `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
- * Better support for full-resolution time stamps. Tar cannot restore
- time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
- guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time
- stamps to nanosecond resolution.
- * The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution,
- not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns.
- Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much.
- * Bug fixes
- ** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options.
- ** When extracting or listing archives in old GNU format, tar
- used to read an extra block of data after a long name header
- if length of the member name was divisible by block size (512).
- Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member
- was not processed correctly.
- ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
- during reading.
- ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
- version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
- This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused
- tar to refuse to extract files from standard input.
- version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
- * Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer
- necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can
- now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
- * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
- prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
- from being purged.
- With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
- incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
- would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
- back up. This change fixes the bug.
- * Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
- the GNU convention.
- * Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports
- seeks.
- * Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
- or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
- * `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
- the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
- * New option --exclude-caches instructs tar to exclude cache directories
- automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those
- containing a standardized tag file, as specified at:
- http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html
- * New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to
- the `rmt' utility. This supersedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
- introduced in version 1.14
- * New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory
- where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying
- --libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it
- also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if
- --enable-backup-scripts was given).
- * Bug fixes:
- ** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
- ** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
- ** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
- Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
- ** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
- previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
- were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
- lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
- extracted copy in such cases.
- ** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option (which
- didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect).
- ** Fixed verification of created archives.
- ** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous
- versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
- ** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous
- versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes.
- version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11
- * Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
- * New option --format allows to select the output archive format
- * The default output format can be selected at configuration time
- by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
- Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
- * New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
- path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
- * New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir
- option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
- the previous default behavior.
- * The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
- does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
- with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
- --old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed
- in future.
- * New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped
- for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
- The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
- with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
- the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
- * New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of
- the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
- files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
- option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named
- file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename'
- extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
- and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
- * New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX
- keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax'
- -o option.
- * --incremental and --listed-incremental options work correctly on
- individual files, as well as on directories.
- * New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore.
- The scripts are compiled and installed if --enable-backup-scripts
- option is given to configure.
- * By default tar searches "rmt" utility in "$prefix/libexec/rmt",
- which is consistent with the location where the version of "rmt"
- included in the package is installed. Previous versions of tar
- used "/etc/rmt". To install "rmt" to its traditional location,
- run configure with option --libexecdir=/etc. Otherwise, if you
- already have rmt installed and wish to use it, instead of the
- shipped in version, set the variable DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND to
- the full path name of the utility, e.g., ./configure
- DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt.
- Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to
- use can be set at runtime, by giving option --rmt-command to
- tar.
- * Removed obsolete command line options:
- ** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
- ** --block-compress is not needed any longer
- ** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor
- ** --modification-time superseded by --touch
- ** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records
- ** --record-number superseded by --block-number
- ** --version-control superseded by --backup
- * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
- hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
- (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
- The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
- * Bug fixes.
- version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
- * Bug fixes.
- version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22
- * New option --overwrite-dir.
- * Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
- * The message translations for Korean are available again.
- version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13
- * Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes.
- version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29
- * Bug fixes.
- version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28
- * Porting and copyright notice fixes.
- version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27
- * Some bugs were fixed:
- - security problems
- - hard links to symbolic links
- * New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion.
- * New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards,
- --wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored).
- Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how
- exclude patterns are interpreted.
- * The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored
- --no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash.
- This is a quiet change to the semantics of --exclude. The previous
- semantics were a failed attempt at backward compatibility but it
- became clear that the semantics were puzzling and did not satisfy
- everybody. Rather than continue to try to revive that dead horse we
- thought it better to substitute cleaner semantics, with options so
- that you can change the behavior more to your liking.
- * New message translations for Indonesian and Turkish.
- The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
- It will be reissued once those are fixed.
- version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
- * The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
- Eventually it is planned to be reintroduced, with the same meaning as -T.
- * With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken
- to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date.
- version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
- * Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
- files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe
- option like --absolute-names or --overwrite.
- * The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
- and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
- * The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
- * The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options.
- * The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
- * The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly.
- * Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS.
- The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old.
- * New language supported: da.
- * Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported.
- If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead.
- * This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later.
- Please see <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.
- * `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
- version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
- * `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
- * Diagnostic messages have been made more regular and consistent.
- version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
- * By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
- extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file
- before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the
- link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one
- exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are
- their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some
- longstanding security problems.
- The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
- For regular files, tar implements this change by using the O_EXCL
- option of `open' to ensure that it creates the file; if this fails, it
- removes the file and tries again. This is similar to the behavior of
- the --unlink-first option, but it is faster in the common case of
- extracting a new directory.
- * By default, tar now ignores file names containing a component of `..'
- when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
- To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
- * Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g., UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
- correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
- * The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
- that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
- locale when restoring a backup. This is needed for proper support
- of multibyte characters. Old-format files can still be read, and
- older versions of GNU tar can read new-format files, unless member
- names have multibyte chars.
- * Many diagnostics have been changed slightly, so that file names are
- now output unambiguously. File names in diagnostics now are either
- `quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
- colon, newline, or space, depending on context. Unprintable
- characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
- Terminating characters (e.g., close-quote, colon, newline)
- are also escaped as needed.
- * tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
- Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
- version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
- * If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.
- Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors.
- version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
- * New translations ja, pt_BR.
- * New options --help and --version for rmt.
- * Ignore Solaris door files when creating an archive.
- version 1.13.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-10-11.
- * Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings.
- * `tar --version' output conforms to the latest GNU coding standards.
- * If you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1.
- * `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
- version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
- * `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
- * New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
- * --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value.
- * `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header
- values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8
- format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time
- stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar
- archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of
- GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old
- behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values,
- and which rejects large files.
- * On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in
- the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T -
- 2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit
- time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning.
- * `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering
- that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract
- as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage.
- * A read error now causes a nonzero exit status, not just a warning.
- * Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
- version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
- * The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
- for compatibility with paxutils.
- * -T /dev/null now matches nothing; previously, it matched anything
- if no explicit operands were given.
- * The `--' option now works the same as with other GNU utilities;
- it causes later operands to be interpreted as file names, not options,
- even if they begin with `-'.
- * For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone
- abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice.
- Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are
- not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use
- numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
- `EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
- version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
- * `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
- out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This
- change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.]
- version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.
- * `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one.
- POSIX.1 requires this, and some other `tar' implementations check for it.
- * `tar' no longer silently accepts a block containing nonzero checksum bytes
- as a zero block.
- * `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a
- numeric header field.
- version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16.
- * For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories
- created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of
- the original file or directory.
- version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14.
- * --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options.
- * When creating an archive, leading `./' is no longer stripped,
- to match traditional tar's behavior (and simplify the documentation).
- * --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names.
- version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
- * An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
- initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to
- exclude a file if it matches any file name component.
- * The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
- Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
- The symbolic format (e.g., "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
- when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
- The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
- for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
- * When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64
- for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal.
- This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes),
- larger uids, negative time stamps, etc.
- * When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
- uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
- and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody".
- * tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic.
- * New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
- version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
- * Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
- version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
- * Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
- this matches historical practice.
- version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
- * A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
- excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
- Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
- version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
- * Bug reporting address changed to <[email protected]>.
- version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
- * Bug fixes only.
- version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
- * Support for large files, e.g., files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
- Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
- * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
- * This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
- with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
- ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/
- The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
- at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
- * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
- but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
- Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
- Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
- Sensitive matters
- * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
- * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
- Output for humans
- * Offer internationalization capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
- * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
- * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
- * More normalization and cleanup in error messages.
- Creation
- * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
- * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
- * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
- * Recognize creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
- * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
- * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
- Extraction
- * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
- * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
- * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
- * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
- * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
- * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
- * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
- * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
- * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
- Various changes
- * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
- * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
- * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
- * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
- * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
- * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
- * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
- * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
- Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
- Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
- * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
- * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
- * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
- * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
- * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
- Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
- Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
- * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
- conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
- backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
- DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
- * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
- * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
- * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
- of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
- compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
- now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
- * Several error messages are cleaned up.
- * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
- * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
- for --info-script.
- * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
- * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
- * Several Makefile cleanups.
- Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
- * Many bug fixes.
- Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
- Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
- Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
- Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
- Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
- * Many bug fixes.
- * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
- * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
- for it will eventually be removed.
- * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
- null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
- * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
- after they are added to the archive.
- * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
- the exit status.
- * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
- is being read or written.
- * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
- omitted from the archive.
- * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
- end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
- * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
- (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
- * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
- the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
- around to the beginning.
- * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
- `:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
- then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
- * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
- their original values after dumping the file.
- * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
- what to dump.
- * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
- modification and access times.
- * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
- precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
- longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
- long names to work.
- Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
- * 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.
- Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
- Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
- Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
- * See ChangeLog for more details.
- Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- This file is part of GNU tar.
- GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
- GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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