Message-Id:	<200002221932.OAA21653@delorie.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:08:17 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender:	eliz AT is
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Tar 1.12a uploaded
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 1.12a of GNU
Tar is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:

 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112ab.zip
 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112as.zip

Tar is a program for creating, extracting, and maintaining archives of 
other files.  GNU Tar features various extensions to standard Tar 
features, including built-in compression and decompression of .tar.gz 
files (you will need the ported Gzip for this feature).

This release is based on a beta version of Tar.  There's actually a sad 
story behind this: GNU Tar changed its maintainer, and the new maintainer 
forked the current sources from stock Tar 1.12, where all the 
DJGPP-related changes are not present.  Version 1.12a was the last one 
released by the previous maintainer, where almost all the changes 
required to support DJGPP were integrated into the official release.

The new maintainer promised to retrofit all my changes into the next 
release, but this next release seems to be far away.  OTOH, version 1.12a 
is working for me for more than a year, and has several bugs fixed.  So I 
think releasing it is the Right Thing (tm).

The most significant user-level change in this release is that Tar
now supports symlink extraction correctly (by copying).  There are
also several bug-fixes and improvements not specific to DJGPP; see
the file NEWS in the distribution for details.

Please direct any further discussions about this port to 
comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway 
djgpp AT delorie DOT com).

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