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> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:57:27 +0200
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
> 
> The bug is probably in Tar (or in mkinstalldirs).  However, the
> changes for DJGPP support I sent two years(!) ago were put aside as a
> result of maintainers' change and the fact that the new maintainer
> started with an old version where my changes did not exist.
> Therefore, I don't intend to port any new versions of Tar, or
> otherwise work on it, until and unless my changes are first made part
> of the official distribution.

Of course, I forgot to tell something without which the above might
not make much sense.

Tar 1.12a is not an official release.  It's the last pretest prepared
by the previous Tar maintainer that included most of my changes.
Being a pretest, some problems were not resolved yet, and I believe
that this one is one of them.

I decided to release this version regardless because it is cleaner
than 1.12, and fixes a few grave bugs, both in the mainline code and
in the DJGPP-specific parts.  It didn't make sense to have this
version sitting on my disk for many months and not let other DJGPP
users have it.

I believe I simply copied the files by hand, instead of saying "make
install": Tar is a small package, so doing that is simple enough.