X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d5bec6c2a1a07a1117817aa5421fdead3944a092;hb=ad3e6fd9fa6bab502eba1b05e98864c35f06cc62;hp=997bf7c600fc942a92f5a970bd5cecd32feb44bb;hpb=b4e98e81e0eedc8e8a0c382d1a4078e871790c2a;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/README b/README index 997bf7c..d5bec6c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -GNU `tar' 1.12.lfs.5 is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large -File Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer +This is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to large +file environments like Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 that rely on integer system types longer than `long'. Ordinary GNU `tar' 1.12 cannot handle files larger than 2 GB when compiled in such environments. This port addresses that problem, and fixes some other well-known bugs in GNU tar 1.12.