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author | François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> | 1994-11-16 02:56:30 +0000 |
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committer | François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> | 1994-11-16 02:56:30 +0000 |
commit | e4b2fc0bd9c12311a49a7e08a779988664ecb3fe (patch) | |
tree | 6cee1dee539abf7c565d37baca69eaaeb2cdc23a /README | |
parent | c904c6ac55aa05b8b06ef4e2de3927a0907c9f86 (diff) | |
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@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ 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. +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. @@ -32,55 +34,3 @@ 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. -User-visible changes since 1.10: - -o Many bug fixes - -o Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf. - -o Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support for it - will eventually be removed. - -o New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be null-terminated, - and causes -C to be ignored. - -o New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories) after - they are added to the archive. - -o New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting - the exit status. - -o New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape is - being read or written. - -o New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories - omitted from the archive. - -o Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating - end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives. - -o --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user (but - not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file. - -o 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. - -o 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. - -o New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to their - original values after dumping the file. - -o No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it what - to dump. - -o When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their - modification and access times. - -o 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. - |