+2003-09-01 Sergey Poznyakoff
+
+ Added initial support for creating POSIX headers.
+
+ * src/common.h (MAXOCTAL11,MAXOCTAL7): New defines
+ (string_to_chars): New functions
+ (struct xheader): Changed structure
+ (gid_to_gname,gname_to_gid,uid_to_uname,uname_to_uid): Changed
+ prototypes.
+ * src/create.c (string_to_chars): New function.
+ (write_extended): New function
+ (start_header): Create extended POSIX headers if necessary.
+ (finish_header): Likewise.
+ * src/list.c (print_header): Take user/group from
+ current_stat_info.
+ * src/names.c (gid_to_gname,gname_to_gid)
+ (uid_to_uname,uname_to_uid): Changed prototypes.
+ * src/tar.c: New option --format.
+ * src/tar.h (OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY): Removed
+ (struct extra_header): Removed unused structure.
+ (union block.extra_header): Removed unused member.
+ * src/xheader.c: Implemented coder functions.
+ * bootstrap: Added obstack.
+ * lib/.cvsignore: Likewise.
+ * configure.ac: Added 'gl_OBSTACK'
+ * m4/Makefile.am: Added new files.
+ * m4/.cvsignore: Likewise.
+ * TODO: Minor formatting change
+
+2003-08-31 Sergey Poznyakoff
+
+ Added initial support for POSIX extended and STAR headers
+ (only for listing/extracting).
+
+ * src/xheader.c: New file.
+ * src/Makefile.am: Added xheader.c
+ * src/tar.h (struct star_header): New datatype
+ (XHDTYPE,XGLTYPE): New defines
+ (enum archive_format:STAR_FORMAT): New member
+ (struct tar_stat_info): New datatype.
+ (union block.star_header): New member.
+ * src/common.h (orig_file_name,current_file_name)
+ (current_trailing_slash,current_link_name): Removed variables.
+ (current_stat_info): New variable
+ (current_stat): Removed
+ (extended_header): New variable
+ (decode_header): Changed prototype.
+ * src/list.c (decode_header): Added initial support for POSIX extended
+ and STAR headers.
+ (skip_member): Check oldgnu_header only if current_format is set
+ to OLDGNU_FORMAT.
+ * src/buffer.c: Use current_stat_info
+ * src/compare.c: Likewise.
+ * src/create.c: Likewise.
+ * src/delete.c: Likewise.
+ * src/incremen.c: Likewise.
+ * src/mangle.c: Likewise.
+ * src/update.c: Likewise.
+ * src/extract.c: Likewise.
+ (make_directories): Improved check for the existence of the directory
+ * src/tar.c (destroy_stat): New function.
+
+2003-08-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+ * NEWS, bootstrap: Drop en_GB locale; it was more trouble than it
+ was worth (e.g., different users in en_GB disagree about -ize
+ versus -ise).
+ * po/en_GB.po: Remove.
+