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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-11-30 06:39:29 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-11-30 06:39:29 +0000
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* NEWS: Remove support for mangled names.
* doc/tar.texi (verbose tutorial): Likewise. * src/Makefile.am (tar_SOURCES): Remove mangle.c. * src/common.h (extract_mangle): Remove decl. * src/extract.c (extract_mangle_wrapper): Remove. (prepare_to_extract): Remove support for mangled names. * src/list.c (read_and, print_header): Likewise. * src/mangle.c: Remove. * src/tar.h (GNUTYPE_NAMES): Remove.
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@@ -1000,12 +1000,6 @@ Encountered only at the beginning of a multi-volume archive
from the previous volume. The number @var{n} gives the offset where
the original file was split.
-@item --Mangled file names--
-This archive member contains @dfn{mangled file names} declarations,
-a special member type that was used by early versions of @GNUTAR{}.
-You probably will never encounter this, unless you are reading a very
-old archive.
-
@item unknown file type @var{c}
An archive member of unknown type. @var{c} is the type character from
the archive header. If you encounter such a message, it means that