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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
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version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
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* Bug fixes.
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version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22
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* New option --overwrite-dir.
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* Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
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version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13
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* Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes.
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version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29
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* Bug fixes.
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version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28
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* Porting and copyright notice fixes.
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version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27
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* Some bugs were fixed:
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- security problems
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- hard links to symbolic links
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* New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion.
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* New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards,
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--wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored).
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Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how
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exclude patterns are interpreted.
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* The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored
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--no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash.
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This is a quiet change to the semantics of --exclude. The previous
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semantics were a failed attempt at backward compatibility but it
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became clear that the semantics were puzzling and did not satisfy
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everybody. Rather than continue to try to revive that dead horse we
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thought it better to substitute cleaner semantics, with options so
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that you can change the behavior more to your liking.
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* New message translations for Indonesian and Turkish.
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The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
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It will be reissued once those are fixed.
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version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
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* The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
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Eventually it is planned to be reintroduced, with the same meaning as -T.
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* With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken
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to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date.
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version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
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* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
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files under the working directory, unless you also specify an unsafe
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option like --absolute-names or --overwrite.
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* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
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and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
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* The manual is now distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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* The new environment variable TAR_OPTIONS holds default command-line options.
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* The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
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* The wording in some diagnostics has been changed slightly.
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* Snapshot files now record whether each file was accessed via NFS.
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The new file format is upward- and downward-compatible with the old.
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* New language supported: da.
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* Compilation by traditional (K&R) C compilers is no longer supported.
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If you still use such a compiler, please use GCC instead.
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* This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later.
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Please see <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.
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* `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
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version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
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* `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
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* Diagnostic messages have been made more regular and consistent.
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version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
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* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
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extracting files from an archive; instead, it removes the file
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before extracting it. If the existing file is a symbolic link, the
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link is removed and not the pointed-to file. There is one
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exception: existing nonempty directories are not removed, nor are
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their ownerships or permissions extracted. This fixes some
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longstanding security problems.
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The new --overwrite option enables the old default behavior.
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For regular files, tar implements this change by using the O_EXCL
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option of `open' to ensure that it creates the file; if this fails, it
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removes the file and tries again. This is similar to the behavior of
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the --unlink-first option, but it is faster in the common case of
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extracting a new directory.
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* By default, tar now ignores file names containing a component of `..'
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when extracting, and warns about such file names when creating an archive.
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To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
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* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
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correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes.
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* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
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that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about
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locale when restoring a backup. This is needed for proper support
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of multibyte characters. Old-format files can still be read, and
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older versions of GNU tar can read new-format files, unless member
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names have multibyte chars.
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* Many diagnostics have been changed slightly, so that file names are
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now output unambiguously. File names in diagnostics now are either
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`quoted like this' (in the default C locale) or are followed by
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colon, newline, or space, depending on context. Unprintable
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characters are escaped with a C-like backslash conventions.
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Terminating characters (e.g. close-quote, colon, newline)
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are also escaped as needed.
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* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
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Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
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version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
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* If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.
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Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors.
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version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
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* New translations ja, pt_BR.
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* New options --help and --version for rmt.
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* Ignore Solaris door files when creating an archive.
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version 1.13.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-10-11.
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* Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings.
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* `tar --version' output conforms to the latest GNU coding standards.
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* If you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1.
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* `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
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version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
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* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
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* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
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* --total now also outputs a human-readable size, and a throughput value.
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* `tar' now uses two's-complement base-256 when outputting header
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values that are out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8
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format. This affects archive members with negative or huge time
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stamps or uids, and archive members 8 GB or larger. The new tar
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archives cannot be read by traditional tar, or by older versions of
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GNU tar. Use the --old-archive option to revert to the old
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behavior, which uses unportable representations for negative values,
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and which rejects large files.
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* On 32-bit hosts, `tar' now assumes that an incoming time stamp T in
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the range 2**31 <= T < 2**32 represents the negative time (T -
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2**32). This behavior is nonstandard and is not portable to 64-bit
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time_t hosts, so `tar' issues a warning.
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* `tar' no longer gives up extracting immediately upon discovering
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that an archive contains garbage at the end. It attempts to extract
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as many files as possible from the good data before the garbage.
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* A read error now causes a nonzero exit status, not just a warning.
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* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
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version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
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* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
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for compatibility with paxutils.
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* -T /dev/null now matches nothing; previously, it matched anything
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if no explicit operands were given.
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* The `--' option now works the same as with other GNU utilities;
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it causes later operands to be interpreted as file names, not options,
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even if they begin with `-'.
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* For the --newer and --after-date options, the table of time zone
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abbreviations like `EST' has been updated to match current practice.
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Also, local time abbreviations are now recognized, even if they are
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not in tar's hardwired table. Remember, though, that you should use
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numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
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`EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
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version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
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* `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
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out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This
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change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.]
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version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.
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* `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one.
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POSIX.1 requires this, and some other `tar' implementations check for it.
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* `tar' no longer silently accepts a block containing nonzero checksum bytes
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as a zero block.
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* `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a
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numeric header field.
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version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16.
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* For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories
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created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of
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the original file or directory.
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version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14.
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* --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options.
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* When creating an archive, leading `./' is no longer stripped,
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to match traditional tar's behavior (and simplify the documentation).
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* --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names.
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version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
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* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
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initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to
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exclude a file if it matches any file name component.
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* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly.
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Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric.
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The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC") is for portability
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when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar.
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The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent,
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for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt.
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* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64
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for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal.
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This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes),
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larger uids, negative time stamps, etc.
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* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the
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uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY
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and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody".
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* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic.
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* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
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version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
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* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
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version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
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* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
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this matches historical practice.
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version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
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* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
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excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
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Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
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version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
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* Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
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version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
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* Bug fixes only.
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version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
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* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
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Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
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* Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
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* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
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with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
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ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/paxutils/
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The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
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at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
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* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
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but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
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Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
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Version 1.12 - Fran<61>ois Pinard, 1997-04.
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Sensitive matters
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* Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
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* Do not quote anymore internally over the quoting done by the shell.
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Output for humans
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* Offer internationalization capabilities of most recent GNU gettext.
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* Messages available in many more languages, thanks to all translators!
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* Usage of ISO 8601 dates in listings, instead of local American dates.
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* More normalization and cleanup in error messages.
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Creation
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* For helping using tar with find, offer a --no-recursion option.
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* Implement --numeric-owner for ignoring symbolic names at create time.
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* New --owner, --group --mode options, still preliminary.
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* Recognize creating an archive on /dev/null, so Amanda works faster.
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* Object to the creation of an empty archive (like in `tar cf FILE').
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* Barely start implementing --posix and POSIXLY_CORRECT.
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Extraction
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* Make a better job at restoring file and directory attributes.
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* Automatically attempt deleting existing files when in the way.
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* Option --unlink-first (-U) removes most files prior to extraction.
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* Option --recursive-unlink removes non-empty directories when in the way.
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* Option --numeric-owner ignores owner/group names, it uses UID/GID instead.
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* Use global umask when creating missing intermediate directories.
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* When symlinks are not available, extract symbolic links as hard links.
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* Diagnose extraction of contiguous files as regular files.
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* New --backup, --suffix and --version-control options.
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Various changes
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* Better support of huge archives with --tape-length and --totals.
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* Rename option --read-full-blocks (-B) to --read-full-records (-B).
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* Rename option --block-size (-b) to --blocking-factor (-b).
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* Rename option --record-number (-R) to --block-number (-R).
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* With --block-number (-R), report null blocks and end of file.
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* Implement --record-size for introducing a size in bytes.
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* Delete --block-compress option and rather decide it automatically.
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* Rename option --modification-time to --touch.
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Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
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Version 1.11.8 - Fran<61>ois Pinard, 1995-06.
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* Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
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* The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.
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* The device defaults to stdin/stdout, unless overridden by the installer.
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* Option --sparse (-S) should work on more systems.
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* Option --rsh-command may select an alternative remote shell program.
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Most changes are internal, and should yield better portability.
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Version 1.11.2 - Michael Bushnell, 1993-03.
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* Changes in backup scripts: cleaned up considerably; notices error
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conditions better over rsh; DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT is now an option in
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backup-specs; new file dump-remind is an example of a
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DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT.
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* Superfluous "Reading dirname" was a bug; fixed.
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* Incompatibility problems with a bug on Solaris are fixed.
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* New option --gzip (aliases are --ungzip and -z); calls gzip instead
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of compress. Also, --use-compress-program lets you specify any
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compress program. --compress-block is renamed --block-compress and
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now requires one of the three compression options to be specified.
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* Several error messages are cleaned up.
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* Directory owners are now set properly when running as root.
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* Provide DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT in backup-specs as a possible option
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for --info-script.
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* Behave better with broken rmt servers.
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* Dump scripts no longer use --atime-preserve; this causes a nasty probem.
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* Several Makefile cleanups.
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Version 1.11.1 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
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* Many bug fixes.
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Version 1.11 - Michael Bushnell, 1992-09.
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Version 1.10.16 - 1992-07.
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Version 1.10.15 - 1992-06.
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Version 1.10.14 - 1992-05.
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Version 1.10.13 - 1992-01.
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* Many bug fixes.
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* Now uses GNU standard configure, generated by Autoconf.
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* Long options now use `--'; use of `+' is deprecated and support
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for it will eventually be removed.
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* New option --null causes filenames read by -T to be
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null-terminated, and causes -C to be ignored.
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* New option --remove-files deletes files (but not directories)
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after they are added to the archive.
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* New option --ignore-failed-read prevents read-errors from affecting
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the exit status.
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* New option --checkpoint prints occasional messages as the tape
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is being read or written.
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* New option --show-omitted-dirs prints the names of directories
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omitted from the archive.
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* Some tape drives which use a non-standard method of indicating
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end-of-tape now work correctly with multi-tape archives.
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* --volno-file: Read the volume number used in prompting the user
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(but not in recording volume ID's on the archive) from a file.
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* When using --multi-volume, you can now give multiple -f arguments;
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the various tape drives will get used in sequence and then wrap
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around to the beginning.
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* Remote archive names no longer have to be in /dev: any file with a
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`:' is interpreted as remote. If new option --force-local is given,
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then even archive files with a `:' are considered local.
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* New option --atime-preserve restores (if possible) atimes to
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their original values after dumping the file.
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* No longer does tar confusingly dump "." when you don't tell it
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what to dump.
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* When extracting directories, tar now correctly restores their
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modification and access times.
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* Longnames support is redone differently--long name info directly
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precedes the long-named file or link in the archive, so you no
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longer have to wait for the extract to hit the end of the tape for
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long names to work.
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Version 1.10 - Michael Bushnell, 1991-07.
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* Filename to -G is optional. -C works right. Names +newer and
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+newer-mtime work right.
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* -g is now +incremental, -G is now +listed-incremental.
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* Sparse files now work correctly.
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* +volume is now called +label.
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* +exclude now takes a filename argument, and +exclude-from does
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what +exclude used to do.
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* Exit status is now correct.
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* +totals keeps track of total I/O and prints it when tar exits.
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* When using +label with +extract, the label is now a regexp.
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* New option +tape-length (-L) does multi-volume handling like BSD
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dump: you tell tar how big the tape is and it will prompt at that
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point instead of waiting for a write error.
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* New backup scripts level-0 and level-1 which might be useful
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to people. They use a file "backup-specs" for information, and
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shouldn't need local modification. These are what we use to do
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all our backups at the FSF.
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Version 1.09 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-10.
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Version 1.08 - Jay Fenlason, 1990-01.
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Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
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* See ChangeLog for more details.
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Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free
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Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU tar.
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GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
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the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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Local Variables:
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coding: iso-latin-1
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