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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ and creates the file `Makefile'.  This takes a couple of minutes.
 
 If you want to compile in a different directory from the one
 containing the source code, `cd' to that directory and run `configure'
-with the option `--srcdir=DIR', where DIR is the directory that
+with the option `+srcdir=DIR', where DIR is the directory that
 contains the source code.  The object files and executables will be
 put in the current directory.  This option only works with versions of
 `make' that support the VPATH variable.  `configure' ignores any other
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ can include them in the next release.
 3.  Type `make'.
 
 4.  If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has
-rename in the C library (so RENAME_MISSING is not used), -lPW might give
+rename in the C library (so WANT_RENAME is not used), -lPW might give
 you an incorrect version of rename.  On HP-UX this manifests itself as
 an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking tar.  If this
 happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a and `ar rc' to
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ This problem does not occur when using gcc, which has alloca built in.
 install them.
 
 6.  After you have installed the programs, you can remove the binaries
-from the source directory by typing `make mostlyclean'.  Type `make
-clean' if you also want to remove `Makefile', for instance if you
+from the source directory by typing `make clean'.  Type `make
+distclean' if you also want to remove `Makefile', for instance if you
 are going to recompile tar next on another type of machine.
 
 makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.
@@ -70,25 +70,25 @@ problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves.
 User-visible changes since 1.09:
 
 Filename to -G is optional.  -C works right.  
-Names newer and --newer-mtime work right.
+Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
 
--g is now --incremental
--G is now --listed-incremental
+-g is now +incremental
+-G is now +listed-incremental
 
 Sparse files now work correctly.
 
---volume is now called --label.
++volume is now called +label.
 
---exclude now takes a filename argument, and --exclude-from does what
---exclude used to do.
++exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
++exclude used to do.
 
 Exit status is now correct.
 
---totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
++totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
 
-When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
+When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
 
-New option --tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
+New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
 you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
 instead of waiting for a write error.