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- This GNU tar 1.10. Please send bug reports, etc., to
- bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
- This is GNU tar. It is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain
- tar, but with added features. The manual is currently being written.
- An old manual, surely riddled with errors, is in tar.texinfo. Please
- don't send in bug reports about that manual. In particular, the
- mechanism for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed.
-
- The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
-
- Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.
- I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the
- problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves. If you don't have
- "rename" in your C library, you will need to find an implementation.
- I'm not sure if I want to roll in the GNU implementation into tar.
-
- -mib
-
- User-visible changes since 1.09:
-
- Filename to -G is optional. -C works right.
- Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right.
-
- -g is now +incremental
- -G is now +listed-incremental
-
- Sparse files now work correctly.
-
- +volume is now called +label.
-
- +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what
- +exclude used to do.
-
- Exit status is now correct.
-
- +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
-
- When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
-
- New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump:
- you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point
- instead of waiting for a write error.
-
- New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to
- people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't
- need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups
- at the FSF.
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