Autzoo.309
hacknews
utzoo!henry
Sat Mar 28 16:56:39 1981
improved tar(1)
Several improvements have been made to tar.  The most prominent ones
are that it now records ascii user/group names, and uses them if it
finds them on the tape, and likewise records and uses ownerships and
permissions for directories.  Several other minor changes, see tar(1).
The tape format remains compatible;  this results in two anomalies when
using different versions of tar to read and write:

1. A tape written with old tar will draw warnings about possibly-wrong
	directory permissions from new tar.  The d option shuts it up.

2. A tape written with new tar, read with old tar, will give a spurious
	file named .TARDIRPERMS. in any directories created during the
	read.  The file is zero-length and has the ownership and permissions
	that the directory SHOULD have.