2024-01-03 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.25 released. * New option '--ignore-metadata. * create.cc, decode.cc, decode_lz.cc: '#include ' for major, minor, makedev on BSD systems. * compress.cc: Reformat file diagnostics as 'PROGRAM: FILE: MESSAGE'. (compress_archive): Create missing intermediate directories. * configure, Makefile.in: New variable 'MAKEINFO'. 2023-09-20 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.24 released. * decode.cc (decode), common_decode.cc (check_skip_filename): Make option '-C' position-dependent also for diff and extract. (Reported by Devon Sean McCullough). * create.cc (encode): Deduct '--uncompressed' from archive name ext. * compress.cc (show_atpos_error): New function showing errno msg. (compress_archive): Exit with error status 2 if archive is empty. * Limit the size of a header set (extended+ustar) to INT_MAX. * check.sh: Fix '--diff' test on OS/2 again. (Reported by Elbert Pol). 2022-09-23 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.23 released. * Create and decode the extended records 'atime' and 'mtime'. * Create and decode the extended records 'uid' and 'gid'. * New option '--ignore-overflow'. * Refuse to read/write archive data from/to a terminal. (Reported by DustDFG). * main.cc (parse_mtime): Make time of day 'HH:MM:SS' optional. Accept both space and 'T' as separator between date and time. (show_option_error): New function showing argument and option name. * decode.cc (extract_member): Diagnose intermediate directory failure. Failure to extract a member is no longer fatal. * decode_lz.cc: Make diagnostics identical to serial decoder. * common_decode.cc (format_member_name): Improve column alignment. * create.cc (fill_headers): Improve diagnostic when stat reports a wrong st_size for a symbolic link. (Reported by Jason Lenz). Change diagnostic "File is the archive" to "Archive can't contain itself" following a similar change made by Paul Eggert to GNU tar. * Don't show "Removing leading '/' from member names." if excluded. * tarlz.texi: Change GNU Texinfo category from 'Data Compression' to 'Archiving' to match that of GNU tar. Use 'end-of-archive' (EOA) instead of 'end-of-file' (EOF). * main.cc (show_help), tarlz.texi: List operations before options. * Many small improvements have been made to code and documentation. 2022-01-05 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.22 released. * main.cc (getnum): Show option name and valid range if error. (check_lib): Check that LZ_API_VERSION and LZ_version_string match. (main): Report an error if -o is used with any operation except -z. * configure: Set variable LIBS. 2021-06-14 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.21 released. * Lzlib 1.12 or newer is now required. * decode.cc (decode): Skip members without name except when listing. decode_lz.cc (dworker): Likewise. (Reported by Florian Schmaus). * New options '-z, --compress' and '-o, --output'. * New option '--warn-newer'. * tarlz.texi (Invoking tarlz): Document concatenation to stdout. * check.sh: Fix the '--diff' test on OS/2. (Reported by Elbert Pol). 2021-01-08 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.19 released. * extended.cc: Print a diagnostic for each unknown keyword found. * tarlz.h: Add a missing '#include ' for 'mode_t'. 2020-11-21 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.18 released. * main.cc: New option '--check-lib'. * Implement multi-threaded '-x, --extract'. * Don't #include when compiling on OS2. * delete.cc, delete_lz.cc: Use Archive_reader. * extract.cc: Rename to decode.cc. * tarlz.texi: New section 'Limitations of multi-threaded extraction'. 2020-07-30 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.17 released. * New option '--mtime'. * New option '-p, --preserve-permissions'. * Implement multi-threaded '-d, --diff'. * list_lz.cc: Rename to decode_lz.cc. * main.cc (main): Report an error if a file name is empty or if the archive is specified more than once. * lzip_index.cc: Improve messages for corruption in last header. * Don't #include when compiling on BSD. * tarlz.texi: New chapter 'Internal structure of tarlz'. 2019-10-08 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.16 released. * extract.cc (extract_member): Fix call order of chown, chmod. * delete_lz.cc (delete_members_lz): Return 2 if collective member. * main.cc: Set a valid invocation_name even if argc == 0. * #include unconditionally. * tarlz.texi: New chapter 'Portable character set'. 2019-04-11 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.15 released. * New option '--delete' (from uncompressed and --no-solid archives). * list_lz.cc: Fix MT listing of archives with format violations. 2019-03-12 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.14 released. * New option '--exclude'. * New option '-h, --dereference'. * Short option name '-h' no longer means '--help'. * create.cc: Implement '-A, --concatenate' and '-r, --append' to uncompressed archives and to standard output. * main.cc: Port option '--out-slots' from plzip. 2019-02-27 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.13 released. * create_lz.cc (cworker): Fix skipping of unreadable files. * list_lz.cc: Fix listing of archives containing empty lzip members. * create.cc (fill_headers): Store negative mtime as cero. 2019-02-22 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.12 released. * create.cc (fill_headers): Fix use of st_rdev instead of st_dev. * Save just numerical uid/gid if user or group not in database. * extract.cc (format_member_name): Print devmajor and devminor. * New option '-d, --diff'. * New option '--ignore-ids'. * extract.cc: Fast '-t, --list' on seekable uncompressed archives. 2019-02-13 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.11 released. * extract.cc (archive_read): Fix endless loop with empty lz file. * Implement multi-threaded '-c, --create' and '-r, --append'. * '--bsolid' is now the default compression granularity. * create.cc (remove_leading_dotslash): Remember more than one prefix. * tarlz.texi: New chapter 'Minimum archive sizes'. 2019-01-31 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.10 released. * New option '--bsolid'. * New option '-B, --data-size'. * create.cc: Set ustar name to zero if extended header is used. 2019-01-22 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.9 released. * Implement multi-threaded '-t, --list'. * New option '-n, --threads'. * Recognize global pax headers. Ignore them for now. * strtoul has been replaced with length-safe parsers. * tarlz.texi: New chapter 'Limitations of parallel tar decoding'. 2018-12-16 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.8 released. * New option '--anonymous' (--owner=root --group=root). * extract.cc (decode): 'tarlz -xf foo ./bar' now extracts 'bar'. * create.cc: Set to zero most fields in extended headers. * tarlz.texi: New chapter 'Amendments to pax format'. 2018-11-23 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.7 released. * New option '--keep-damaged'. * New option '--no-solid'. * create.cc (archive_write): Minimize dictionary size. Detect and skip archive in '-A', '-c', and '-r'. * main.cc (show_version): Show the version of lzlib being used. 2018-10-19 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.6 released. * New option '-A, --concatenate'. * Option '--ignore-crc' replaced with '--missing-crc'. * create.cc (add_member): Check that uid, gid, mtime, devmajor, and devminor are in ustar range. * configure: Accept appending to CXXFLAGS; 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'. * Makefile.in: Use tarlz in target 'dist'. 2018-09-29 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.5 released. * Implement simplified POSIX pax format. * Implement CRC32-C (Castagnoli) of the extended header data. * New option '--ignore-crc'. * Add missing #includes for major, minor and makedev. * tarlz.texi: Document the new archive format. 2018-04-23 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.4 released. * Add some missing #includes. * main.cc: Open files in binary mode on OS2. 2018-03-19 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.3 released. * Rename project to 'tarlz' from 'pmtar' (Poor Man's Tar). * New option '-C, --directory'. * Implement lzip compression of members at archive creation. * New option '-r, --append'. * New options '--owner' and '--group'. * New options '--asolid', '--dsolid', and '--solid'. * Implement file appending to compressed archive. * Implement transparent decompression of the archive. * Implement skipping over damaged (un)compressed members. * Implement recursive extraction/listing of directories. * Implement verbose extract/list output. * tarlz.texi: New file. 2014-01-22 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.2 released. * configure: Options now accept a separate argument. 2013-02-16 Antonio Diaz Diaz * Version 0.1 released. 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