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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2001-08-27 18:17:25 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2001-08-27 18:17:25 +0000 |
commit | dc7b579e9c149b2c51cbc641132818a49162a892 (patch) | |
tree | 33f47fad65bbd7b807efe80b6e2358f28ecd202b | |
parent | 3cb3f66c92bc5c67af209e45a2246a29d1d7a2f8 (diff) | |
download | tar-dc7b579e9c149b2c51cbc641132818a49162a892.tar.gz |
Describe changes a bit more carefully. Put copyright notice at end.
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@@ -1,38 +1,30 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. - Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free - Software Foundation, Inc. +version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27 - This file is part of GNU tar. - - GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - 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 - along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to - the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, - Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. - - -version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-26 - -* More security problems have been fixed. +* 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 control how exclude - patterns are interpreted. The default interpretation of exclude - patterns is now --no-anchored --no-ignore-case --recursion - --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash. + 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 @@ -471,6 +463,29 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. * See ChangeLog for more details. + +Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free +Software Foundation, Inc. + +This file is part of GNU tar. + +GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +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 +along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to +the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, +Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + + + Local Variables: coding: iso-latin-1 End: |