1Hey! Emacs! Yo! This is -*- Text -*- !!! 2 3This GNU tar 1.11.2. Please send bug reports, etc., to 4bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. Please 5try it out. There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will 6contain a manual. 7 8GNU tar is based heavily on John Gilmore's public domain tar, but with 9added features. The manual is currently being written. 10 11This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server (which 12normally must reside in /etc). The mt tape drive control program is 13in the GNU cpio distribution. 14 15See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions for Unix. 16See the file NEWS for information on all that is new in this version 17of tar. 18 19makefile.pc is a makefile for Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS. 20 21Various people have been having problems using floppies on a NeXT. In 22order to have them work right, you need to kill the automounting 23program which tries to monut floppies as soon as they are added. 24 25If you want to do incremental dumps, use the distributed backup 26scripts. They are what we use at the FSF to do all our backups. Most 27importantly, do not use --incremental (-G) or --after-date (-N) or 28--newer-mtime to do incremental dumps. The only option that works 29correctly for this purpose is --listed-incremental. (When extracting 30incremental dumps, use --incremental (-G).) 31 32If your system needs to link with -lPW to get alloca, but has 33rename in the C library (so HAVE_RENAME is defined), -lPW might 34give you an incorrect version of rename. On HP-UX this manifests 35itself as an undefined data symbol called "Error" when linking cp, ln, 36and mv. If this happens, use `ar x' to extract alloca.o from libPW.a 37and `ar rc' to put it in a library liballoca.a, and put that in LIBS 38instead of -lPW. This problem does not occur when using gcc, which 39has alloca built in. 40 41