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