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> Date: Mon,  8 Nov 2004 16:40:06 -0500
> From: fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu
> 
> I have tried the tar 1.1.2 package.  As supplied, the binary
> failed four of the tests provided.  The most noticable on
> Windows XP was the failure to provide correct time stamps
> for extracted files..  When recompiled it failed only the
> last test, only one!  Not good enough!  Looking at gnu tar
> 1.1.4 I realized there was not one trace of Eli's extensive
> work on the earlier version.

My changes were done on Tar 1.12a which was a prerelease taht was
never released.  Paul Eggert, who maintained Tar during 1.13.x phase,
started his work with the official Tar 1.12, which had none of my
patches.

Now there's a new maintainer for Tar, who said he will use my patches
to release a version that supports DJGPP.  We will see.