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* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
options. Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
+* New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar
+quotes member names on output. The --quoting-style takes an argument
+specifying the quoting style to use (literal, shell, shell-always,
+c, escape, locale, clocale). The argument to --quote-chars is a string
+specifying characters to quote, even if the selected quoting style
+would not quote them otherwise. The option --no-quote-chars is
+provided to disable quoting certain characters.
+
* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME. It can alter the