X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=21075242f10b8b504032936c80941c1e3064d662;hb=aafb997b0992a0a46264ef22d101d444e025cbf3;hp=50bb1d5ec178df192b2e3e0454cfffedb5577961;hpb=b4e98e81e0eedc8e8a0c382d1a4078e871790c2a;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 50bb1d5..2107524 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,17 +1,18 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright © 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -version 1.12.lfs.5 - Paul Eggert, 1998-11-15. +version 1.12.64010 - Paul Eggert, 1999-03-22. -This version is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large File -Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer system -types longer than `long'. Please send bug reports specific to this -unofficial version of GNU `tar' to . +This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large file +environments like AIX 4.2, HP-UX 10.20, IRIX 6.2, and Solaris 2.6 that +(among other things) rely on integer system types longer than `long'. +Please send bug reports specific to this unofficial version of GNU `tar' +to . This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for -Large File Summit hosts like Solaris 2.6. The patches of this -release have all been submitted via the usual channels and +large file hosts. The patches of this +release have all been (or will be) submitted via the usual channels and they should no longer be needed once the next official release of GNU tar is out.