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@@ -1,53 +1,17 @@ -Changes in version 0.23: +Changes in version 0.24: -Tarlz now can create and decode the extended records 'atime' and 'mtime', -allowing times beyond the ustar range (before 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC or -after 2242-03-16 12:56:31 UTC). +The option '-C, --directory' is now position-dependent also for diff and +extract. (Reported by Devon Sean McCullough). -Tarlz now can create and decode the extended records 'uid' and 'gid', -allowing user and group IDs beyond the ustar limit of 2_097_151. +Option '--uncompressed' can now be omitted if it can be deduced from the +archive name. (An uncompressed archive name lacks a '.lz' or '.tlz' extension). -The new option '--ignore-overflow', which makes '-d, --diff' ignore -differences in mtime caused by overflow on 32-bit systems, has been added. +The diagnostic shown when a file being archived or an archive being +compressed fails to read, now shows the cause of the failure; end-of-file or +read error. -Tarlz now refuses to read archive data from a terminal or write archive data -to a terminal. (Reported by DustDFG). +'-z, --compress' now exits with error status 2 if any input archive is an +empty file. -In the date format of option '--mtime' the time of day 'HH:MM:SS' is now -optional and defaults to '00:00:00'. Both space and 'T' are now accepted as -separator between date and time. - -Diagnostics caused by invalid arguments to command line options now show the -argument and the name of the option. - -Tarlz now diagnoses separately the failure to create an intermediate -directory during extraction. - -Failure to extract a member due to environmental problems is no longer fatal -in serial extraction. (It was already non-fatal in parallel extraction). - -The diagnostics emitted by the parallel decoder should now be identical to -the corresponding diagnostics of the serial decoder. - -Column alignment has been improved in listings by printing "user/group size" -in a field of minimum width 19 with at least 8 characters for size. - -The diagnostic shown when the filesystem reports a wrong st_size for a -symbolic link has been improved. (Reported by Jason Lenz). - -The diagnostic "File is the archive" has been changed to "Archive can't -contain itself" following a similar change made by Paul Eggert to GNU tar. - -The warning "Removing leading '/' from member names." is now not shown when -compressing nor if the member causing it is excluded. - -The texinfo category of the manual has been changed from 'Data Compression' -to 'Archiving' to match that of GNU tar. - -'end-of-archive' (EOA) is now used consistently to refer to the blocks of -binary zeros used to mark the end of the archive. - -Operations are now listed before options in the --help output and in the -manual. - -Many small improvements have been made to the code and documentation. +A failure in the '--diff' test of the testsuite on OS/2 has been fixed. +(Reported by Elbert Pol). |