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1 | Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!! |
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3 | This GNU tar 1.11.2. Please send bug reports, etc., to | |
4 | bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. Please | |
5 | try it out. There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will | |
6 | contain a manual. | |
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8 | GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with | |
9 | added features. The manual is currently being written. | |
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11 | This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which | |
12 | normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is | |
13 | in the GNU cpio distribution. | |
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15 | See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix. | |
16 | See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version | |
17 | of tar. | |
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19 | makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS. | |
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21 | Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT. In | |
22 | order to have them work right, you need to kill the automounting | |
23 | program which tries to monut floppies as soon as they are added. | |
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25 | If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup | |
26 | scripts. They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups. Most | |
27 | importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or | |
28 | --newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works | |
29 | correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental. (When extracting | |
30 | incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).) | |
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32 | If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has | |
33 | rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might | |
34 | give you an incorrect version of rename. On HP-UX this manifests | |
35 | itself as an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking cp, ln, | |
36 | and mv. If this happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a | |
37 | and `ar rc' to put it in a library liballoca.a, and put that in LIBS | |
38 | instead of -lPW. This problem does not occur when using gcc, which | |
39 | has alloca built in. | |
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