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1 | This GNU tar 1.10. Please send bug reports, etc., to |
| 2 | bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. | |
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| 4 | This is GNU tar. It is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain | |
| 5 | tar, but with added features. The manual is currently being written. | |
| 6 | An old manual, surely riddled with errors, is in tar.texinfo. Please | |
| 7 | don't send in bug reports about that manual. In particular, the | |
| 8 | mechanism for doing incremental dumps has been significantly changed. | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | The mt program is in the GNU cpio distribution. | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT. | |
| 13 | I've gotten conflicting reports about what should be done to solve the | |
| 14 | problems, and we have no way to test it ourselves. If you don't have | |
| 15 | "rename" in your C library, you will need to find an implementation. | |
| 16 | I'm not sure if I want to roll in the GNU implementation into tar. | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | -mib | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | User-visible changes since 1.09: | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | Filename to -G is optional. -C works right. | |
| 23 | Names +newer and +newer-mtime work right. | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | -g is now +incremental | |
| 26 | -G is now +listed-incremental | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | Sparse files now work correctly. | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | +volume is now called +label. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does what | |
| 33 | +exclude used to do. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | Exit status is now correct. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits. | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp. | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD dump: | |
| 42 | you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that point | |
| 43 | instead of waiting for a write error. | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful to | |
| 46 | people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and shouldn't | |
| 47 | need local modification. These are what we use to do all our backups | |
| 48 | at the FSF. | |
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