NetBSD/gnu/usr.bin/tar
wiz 08a9fdd741 Fix date, whitespace and punctuation. 2001-04-09 12:14:03 +00:00
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COPYING kill version number on directory... strange hacks to get this to work... 1993-07-18 11:46:53 +00:00
ChangeLog kill version number on directory... strange hacks to get this to work... 1993-07-18 11:46:53 +00:00
Makefile Don't use GNU malloc() any more. 1999-07-30 04:07:23 +00:00
Makefile.gnu - New switch ENABLE_SPARSE to enable an efficient sparse file handling 1998-06-07 02:30:12 +00:00
README kill version number on directory... strange hacks to get this to work... 1993-07-18 11:46:53 +00:00
VERSION kill version number on directory... strange hacks to get this to work... 1993-07-18 11:46:53 +00:00
buffer.c convert change for PR#2212 from BSD to POSIX 1998-07-21 08:06:55 +00:00
create.c use %ll_ instead of the less standard %q_ 2001-01-05 03:54:34 +00:00
diffarch.c changes to make the src/gnu code compile happily on the alpha: 1995-04-23 08:35:30 +00:00
extract.c Restore owner/group/mode/atime/mtime of symbolic links. 1997-10-08 22:51:27 +00:00
fnmatch.c Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
fnmatch.h Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
getdate.y Fix Y2K bug in date parser reported by Trevin Beattie in PR y2k/9123. 2000-01-05 21:34:11 +00:00
getoldopt.c Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
getopt.c include string.h on NetBSD; we need the proto 1995-04-29 05:36:24 +00:00
getopt.h Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
getopt1.c Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
gnu.c use %ll_ instead of the less standard %q_ 2001-01-05 03:54:34 +00:00
list.c Only skip some bytes if the associated object is not a dir. 2000-01-22 14:04:15 +00:00
mangle.c Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
msd_dir.h Add RCS identifiers. 1993-08-01 17:54:45 +00:00
names.c Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
open3.h Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
pathmax.h Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
port.c Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
port.h Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
regex.c changes to make the src/gnu code compile happily on the alpha: 1995-04-23 08:35:30 +00:00
regex.h Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
rmt.h Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00
rtapelib.c Use /etc/rmt as per protocol definition, to ensure interoperability 1994-10-18 06:04:08 +00:00
tar.1 Fix date, whitespace and punctuation. 2001-04-09 12:14:03 +00:00
tar.c Add a `-y' option which filters archives through bzip2(1). 2000-07-05 11:57:57 +00:00
tar.h Change tot_written from u_quad_t to unsigned long long for portability's 2000-06-26 08:25:34 +00:00
update.c use %ll_ instead of the less standard %q_ 2001-01-05 03:54:34 +00:00
version.c Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit 1993-08-02 17:48:44 +00:00

README

Hey!  Emacs!  Yo!  This is -*- Text -*- !!!

This GNU tar 1.11.2.  Please send bug reports, etc., to
bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.  This is a beta-test release.  Please
try it out.  There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will
contain a manual.

GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with
added features.  The manual is currently being written.  

This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which
normally must reside in /etc).  The mt tape drive control program is
in the GNU cpio distribution.

See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix.
See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version
of tar.

makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.

Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT.  In
order to have them work right, you need to kill the automounting
program which tries to monut floppies as soon as they are added.

If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup
scripts.  They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups.  Most
importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or
--newer-mtime to do incremental dumps.  The only option that works
correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental.  (When extracting
incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).)

If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has
rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might
give you an incorrect version of rename.  On HP-UX this manifests
itself as an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking cp, ln,
and mv.  If this happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a
and `ar rc' to put it in a library liballoca.a, and put that in LIBS
instead of -lPW.  This problem does not occur when using gcc, which
has alloca built in.