This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi.
-This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.27, 24 September 2013), which
+This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.27.1, 24 September 2013), which
creates and extracts files from archives.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2013 Free Software
Makefiles. This practice will change in the future, in the
meantime, however this means that projects containing file names
more than 99 characters long will not be able to use GNU `tar'
- 1.27 and Automake prior to 1.9.
+ 1.27.1 and Automake prior to 1.9.
ustar
Archive format defined by POSIX.1-1988 specification. It stores
Some compression programs are able to handle different compression
formats. GNU `tar' uses this, if the principal decompressor for the
given format is not available. For example, if `compress' is not
-installed, `tar' will try to use `gzip'. As of version 1.27 the
+installed, `tar' will try to use `gzip'. As of version 1.27.1 the
following alternatives are tried(2):
Format Main decompressor Alternatives
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This appendix lists some important user-visible changes between version
-GNU `tar' 1.27 and previous versions. An up-to-date version of this
+GNU `tar' 1.27.1 and previous versions. An up-to-date version of this
document is available at the GNU `tar' documentation page
(http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/changes.html).
file system at the time of the dump and is used to determine which
files were modified since the last backup.
- GNU `tar' version 1.27 supports three snapshot file formats. The
+ GNU `tar' version 1.27.1 supports three snapshot file formats. The
first format, called "format 0", is the one used by GNU `tar' versions
up to and including 1.15.1. The second format, called "format 1" is an
extended version of this format, that contains more metadata and allows
for further extensions. It was used by alpha release version 1.15.90.
For alpha version 1.15.91 and stable releases version 1.16 up through
-1.27, the "format 2" is used.
+1.27.1, the "format 2" is used.
GNU `tar' is able to read all three formats, but will create
snapshots only in format 2.
2. `Format 2' snapshot file begins with a format identifier, as
described for version 1, e.g.:
- GNU tar-1.27-2
+ GNU tar-1.27.1-2
This line is followed by newline. Rest of file consists of
records, separated by null (ASCII 0) characters. Thus, in contrast