-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.59 2000/05/29 14:17:37 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.62 2000/06/01 20:49:32 stelian Exp $
-Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released ??????????????)
+Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
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1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
- not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Chris
+ not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
<haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
+ Normally, the device name and the current volume number
+ are passed on the command line of the script. However,
+ if you want the old style script (with no arguments
+ passed on the command line), you can enable it in
+ configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
+
2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
the patch.
3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
- 2 means that some files were modified.
+ 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
+ <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
-4. Made quotes work in interactive restore.
+4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
- really old e2fsprogs version.
+ really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
+ <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
+ Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
+ suggestion.
+
+7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
+ allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
+ ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
+ <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
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