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 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
   5
   6 * Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
   7   this matches historical practice.
   8 * Bug fixes.
   9
  10 version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
  11
  12 * A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
  13   excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
  14 * Bug fixes.
  15
  16 version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
  17
  18 * Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
  19 * Bug fixes.
  20
  21 version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
  22
  23 * Bug fixes.
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  25 version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
  26
  27 * Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
  28   Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
  29 * Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
  30 * This release is only for fixes.  A more ambitious test release,
  31   with new features, is available as part of the paxutils.  Please see:
  32     http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
  33   The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
  34   at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
  35 * An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
  36   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
  37   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
  38 \f
  39 Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
  40
  41 Sensitive matters
  42 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
  43 * Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
  44
  45 Output for humans
  46 * Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
  47 * Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
  48 * Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
  49 * More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
  50
  51 Creation
  52 * For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
  53 * Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
  54 * New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
  55 * Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
  56 * Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
  57 * Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
  58
  59 Extraction
  60 * Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
  61 * Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
  62 * Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
  63 * Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
  64 * Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
  65 * Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
  66 * When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
  67 * Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
  68 * New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
  69
  70 Various changes
  71 * Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
  72 * Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
  73 * Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
  74 * Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
  75 * With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
  76 * Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
  77 * Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
  78 * Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
  79
  80 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
  81 \f
  82 Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
  83
  84 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
  85 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
  86 * The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
  87 * Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
  88 * Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
  89
  90 Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
  91 \f
  92 Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
  93
  94 * Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
  95 conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
  96 backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
  97 DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
  98
  99 * Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
 100
 101 * Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
 102
 103 * New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
 104 of compress.  Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
 105 compress program.  --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
 106 now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
 107
 108 * Several error messages are cleaned up.
 109
 110 * Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
 111
 112 * Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
 113 for --info-script.
 114
 115 * Behave better with broken rmt servers.
 116
 117 * Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
 118
 119 * Several Makefile cleanups.
 120 \f
 121 Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 122
 123 * Many bug fixes.
 124 \f
 125 Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
 126 Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
 127 Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
 128 Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
 129 Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
 130
 131 * Many bug fixes.
 132
 133 * Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
 134
 135 * Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
 136 for it will eventually be removed.
 137
 138 * New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
 139 null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
 140
 141 * New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
 142 after they are added to the archive.
 143
 144 * New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
 145 the exit status.
 146
 147 * New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
 148 is being read or written.
 149
 150 * New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
 151 omitted from the archive.
 152
 153 * Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
 154 end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
 155
 156 * --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
 157 (but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
 158
 159 * When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
 160 the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
 161 around to the beginning.
 162
 163 * Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
 164 `:' is interpreted as remote.  If new option --force-local is given,
 165 then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
 166
 167 * New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
 168 their original values after dumping the file.
 169
 170 * No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
 171 what to dump.
 172
 173 * When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
 174 modification and access times.
 175
 176 * Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
 177 precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
 178 longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
 179 long names to work.
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 181 Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
 182
 183 * Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  Names +newer and
 184 +newer-mtime work right.
 185
 186 * -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
 187
 188 * Sparse files now work correctly.
 189
 190 * +volume is now called +label.
 191
 192 * +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
 193 what +exclude used to do.
 194
 195 * Exit status is now correct.
 196
 197 * +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 198
 199 * When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 200
 201 * New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
 202 dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
 203 point instead of waiting for a write error.
 204
 205 * New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
 206 to people.  They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
 207 shouldn't need local modification.  These are what we use to do
 208 all our backups at the FSF.
 209 \f
 210 Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
 211 Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
 212 Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
 213
 214 * See ChangeLog for more details.