+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
+Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+version 1.12.64016 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-01.
+
+* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
+ Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
+* Many bug fixes.
+* This release is intended only as a bugfix release. A more ambitious version,
+ with new features, is also available as part of paxutils. Please see:
+ http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
+ The bug fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
+ at some point, but they haven't been merged as of this writing.
+
+\f
+Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
+
+Sensitive matters
+* Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
+* Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
+
+Output for humans
+* Offer internationalisation capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
+* Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
+* Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
+* More normalisation and cleanup in error messages.
+
+Creation
+* For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
+* Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
+* New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
+* Recognise creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
+* Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
+* Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.