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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>1998-08-07 19:09:53 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>1998-08-07 19:09:53 +0000
commit6cd816fc83f03e864d950958cd1c90ace3718b4a (patch)
tree45c3389595fad6dd94abb42678a6544d47392542
parent887188311dcce3ce7f5aa71a2065f28329404107 (diff)
downloadtar-6cd816fc83f03e864d950958cd1c90ace3718b4a.tar.gz
Update revision number.
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--README7
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 17c13581..d15b038e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
-Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-version 1.12.lfs.2 - Paul Eggert, 1998-02.
+version 1.12.lfs.3 - Paul Eggert, 1998-08.
This version is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large File
Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer system
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3ef2a61d..8ce078b7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-GNU `tar' 1.12.lfs.2 is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large
+GNU `tar' 1.12.lfs.3 is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large
File Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer
system types longer than `long'. Ordinary GNU `tar' 1.12 cannot handle
files larger than 2 GB when compiled in such environments. This port
-addresses that problem. Please send bug reports specific to this
-unofficial version of GNU `tar' to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
+addresses that problem, and fixes some other well-known bugs in GNU tar 1.12.
+Please send bug reports specific to this unofficial version of GNU `tar'
+to <eggert@twinsun.com>.
This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's
just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for