Whitespace nits.

pax.1 & tar.1: add a minor clarification about "-s"

As a somewhat pedantic clarification, "-s" does not accept backslashes
as delimiters. (While here, also make the macro use of an expression
shared

pax.1 & tar.1: add a minor clarification about "-s"

As a somewhat pedantic clarification, "-s" does not accept backslashes
as delimiters. (While here, also make the macro use of an expression
shared between pax.1 and tar.1 consistent.)

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Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.

PR/50119: Thomas Klausner: Add --timestamp option to tar.

Use An in AUTHORS section.

Add -J/--xz to specifically decompress xz compressed files. We don't really
need this because -z autodetects the compression format; this is for syntax
compatibility with other tar implementations. F

Add -J/--xz to specifically decompress xz compressed files. We don't really
need this because -z autodetects the compression format; this is for syntax
compatibility with other tar implementations. From Joachim Henke

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Fix whitespace nits. Suggested by Bug Hunting.

Use Fl Fl for long options.

document --xz

\\ -> \e

bump date for previous

The -X option of tar names a file containing exception globs, not
exception filenames, same as in gtar. PR 41168 from Perry.

"compatibility", not "compatability".

Minimally sort options; use Dq; new sentence, new line.

PR/36275: john at iastate dot edu: tar -s modifies symlink targets
- This is explained in a comment in pat_rep.c inside mod_name(). I did not
want to change the default behavior, so I added another

PR/36275: john at iastate dot edu: tar -s modifies symlink targets
- This is explained in a comment in pat_rep.c inside mod_name(). I did not
want to change the default behavior, so I added another modifier "s" which
when set, the pattern will not modify the symlink destination.
- While here I fixed another bug that was introduced before by the fix in
PR/35257 where the renaming was happening twice since we called rep_name
twice.
- Finally if we are renaming hard of soft-link targets print the renames for
those too.

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bump date.

PR/36194: Greg A. Woods: add a '-V' flag to pax for verbose summary without
listing (and other minor fixes)

Bump date for -no-recursion.

PR/30167: J.T. Conklin: NetBSD tar does not support GNU tar --no-recursion flag

English improvement (remove "be").

Update date - before wiz complains

Add an option --chroot to tar. Causes it to chroot(".") before doing
an extract. With -h this will cause existing absolute symlinks to be treated
as relative to the current directory.
Helps sysinst

Add an option --chroot to tar. Causes it to chroot(".") before doing
an extract. With -h this will cause existing absolute symlinks to be treated
as relative to the current directory.
Helps sysinst handle existing symlinks in the target system.
Remove 'L' from the usage (got spilt into 'h' and 'H' many moons ago)
Add 'S' to usage, and put into correct place in options list.

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Bump date for -S support.

PR/19490: Julio Merino: Teach tar about --sparse, -S option.
Do it for cpio too.

Change copyright to 2-clause BSD-copyright.
Changed with explicit permission of Thorsten Lockert (tholo sigmasoft com)