Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - NEWS

   1 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
   2 Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3
   4 version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-04.
   5
   6 * Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
   7   Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
   8 * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
   9 * This release is only for fixes.  A more ambitious test release,
  10   with new features, is available as part of the paxutils.  Please see:
  11     http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
  12   The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
  13   at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
  14 * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
  15   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
  16   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
  17 \f
  18 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
  19
  20 Sensitive matters
  21 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
  22 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
  23
  24 Output for humans
  25 * Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
  26 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
  27 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
  28 * More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
  29
  30 Creation
  31 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
  32 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
  33 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
  34 * Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
  35 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
  36 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
  37
  38 Extraction
  39 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
  40 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
  41 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
  42 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
  43 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
  44 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
  45 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
  46 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
  47 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
  48
  49 Various changes
  50 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
  51 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
  52 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
  53 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
  54 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
  55 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
  56 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
  57 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
  58
  59 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
  60 \f
  61 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
  62
  63 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
  64 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
  65 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
  66 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
  67 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
  68
  69 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
  70 \f
  71 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
  72
  73 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
  74 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
  75 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
  76 DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
  77
  78 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
  79
  80 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
  81
  82 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
  83 of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
  84 compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
  85 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
  86
  87 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
  88
  89 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
  90
  91 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
  92 for --info-script.
  93
  94 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
  95
  96 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
  97
  98 * Several Makefile cleanups.
  99 \f
 100 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 101
 102 * Many bug fixes.
 103 \f
 104 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 105 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
 106 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
 107 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
 108 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
 109
 110 * Many bug fixes.
 111
 112 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 113
 114 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
 115 for it will eventually be removed.
 116
 117 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
 118 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
 119
 120 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
 121 after they are added to the archive.
 122
 123 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
 124 the exit status.
 125
 126 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
 127 is being read or written.
 128
 129 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
 130 omitted from the archive.
 131
 132 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
 133 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
 134
 135 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
 136 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
 137
 138 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
 139 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
 140 around to the beginning.
 141
 142 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
 143 `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
 144 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
 145
 146 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
 147 their original values after dumping the file.
 148
 149 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
 150 what to dump.
 151
 152 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
 153 modification and access times.
 154
 155 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
 156 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
 157 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
 158 long names to work.
 159 \f
 160 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
 161
 162 * Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  Names +newer and
 163 +newer-mtime work right.
 164
 165 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
 166
 167 * Sparse files now work correctly.
 168
 169 * +volume is now called +label.
 170
 171 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
 172 what +exclude used to do.
 173
 174 * Exit status is now correct.
 175
 176 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 177
 178 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 179
 180 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
 181 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
 182 point instead of waiting for a write error.
 183
 184 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
 185 to people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
 186 shouldn't need local modification.  These are what we use to do
 187 all our backups at the FSF.
 188 \f
 189 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
 190 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
 191 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 192
 193 * See ChangeLog for more details.