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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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 version 1.14.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, <DATE>
 
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 version 1.14.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, <DATE>
 

+* It is no longer necessary to specify -Z,-z, or -j options to
+read compressed archives. GNU tar automatically detects the type
+of archive it has to deal with and runs an appropriate decompressing
+command. Thus, you can now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
+

 * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
 prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
 from being purged.
 * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
 prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
 from being purged.

diff --git a/tests/star/README b/tests/star/README
index a2fd0ae9d7819f8205ef65b2abdc337428bc0600..552ddd6e93b0e4de62af63ed024f1b5b0108ed3d 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/star/README
+++ b/tests/star/README
@@ -12,43 +12,34 @@ or
 
 Following is a short description of the tests:
 
 
 Following is a short description of the tests:
 

-* gtarfail.sh and gtarfile2.tar
+* gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at

 
 These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively.
 These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted
 by previous versions of GNU tar.
 
 
 These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively.
 These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted
 by previous versions of GNU tar.
 

-* multi-fail.sh
+* multi-fail.at

 
 Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar.
 These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions
 of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option). 
 
 
 Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar.
 These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions
 of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option). 
 

-* ustar-big-2g.sh
+* ustar-big-2g.at

 
 Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
 the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand.
 
 
 Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
 the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand.
 

-* ustar-big-8g.sh
+* ustar-big-8g.at

 
 Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
 files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990)
 format.
 
 
 Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
 files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990)
 format.
 

-* pax-big-10g.sh
+* pax-big-10g.at

 
 Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
 containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB).
 
 
 Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
 containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB).
 

-* qucktest.sh
-
-A test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It requires
-the files ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist. Apart
-from them, the `tartest' program from 'star' package is needed.
-The test may be run only with root privileges, so it is a good
-idea to test the contents of ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running
-it.
-

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