* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format.
* New option --format allows to select the output archive format
* The default output format can be selected at configuration time
-by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
-Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
+ by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
+ Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
-path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
+ path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
* Bug fixes.
option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer
the previous default behavior.
-* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
- hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
- (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
- The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
-
* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it
-does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
-with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
---old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed
-in future.
+ does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible
+ with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of
+ --old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed
+ in future.
* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped
-for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
-The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
-with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
-the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
+ for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
+ The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
+ with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
+ the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
+
+* New option --first-copy can be used in conjunction with one of
+ the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
+ files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
+ option instructs tar to terminate when all of the filenames from
+ the list were processed.
* Removed obsolete command line options:
** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names
** --record-number superseeded by --block-number
** --version-control superseeded by --backup
+* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
+ hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
+ (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
+ The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+
version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
* Bug fixes.
along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end: