-This GNU tar 1.10. Please send bug reports, etc., to
-bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
+Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!!
+
+This GNU tar 1.11.1. Please send bug reports, etc., to
+bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. Please
+try it out. After bug reports are processed for this release, version
+1.12 will be released. This release includes only bugfixes past
+version 1.11, most of which are fairly important.
GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
added features. The manual is currently being written. An old
for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed.
This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
-must reside in /etc). The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
+normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is
+in the GNU cpio distribution.
See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
+See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version
+of tar.
makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.
-Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
-I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
-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.
-
--g is now --incremental
--G is now --listed-incremental
-
-Sparse files now work correctly.
-
---volume is now called --label.
-
---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.
-
-When using --label with --extract, the label is now a regexp.
-
-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.
+Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT. In
+order to have them work right, you need to kill the automounting
+program which tries to monut floppies as soon as they are added.
+
+If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
+scripts. They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups. Most
+importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or
+--newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works
+correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental. (When extracting
+incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).)
+
+There is no tar manual in this release. The old manual has too many
+problems to make it usable. A new manual will appear in version 1.12.
+
+If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has
+rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might
+give you an incorrect version of rename. On HP-UX this manifests
+itself as an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking cp, ln,
+and mv. If this happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a
+and `ar rc' to put it in a library liballoca.a, and put that in LIBS
+instead of -lPW. This problem does not occur when using gcc, which
+has alloca built in.
-New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
-people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
-need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
-at the FSF.
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