dump-0.3.announce

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   2         Ok, I'm back ;-)
   3
   4         Dump 0.3 is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu in the directory
   5 /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.
   6
   7         Restore is now able to restore named pipes (fifos).  Thanks to
   8 Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com> for reporting the bug.  I have also fixed
   9 a bug in the symlink restoration: owner and group were not set by previous
  10 version.  Thanks to Klaus Kudielka <kkudielk@cacofonix.nt.tuwien.ac.at> for
  11 reporting it.  Restore is now able to restore correctly files ending with
  12 a hole (mainly DLL shared libraries under Linux).  Thanks to David Monro
  13 <davidm@cs.su.oz.au> for sending me a patch much cleaner than mine :-)
  14
  15         Kevin Layer <layer@Franz.COM> has implemented a verify option in
  16 restore.  It is now possible to check a dump against the contents of the
  17 filesystem.  Thank you very much, Kevin!
  18
  19         Some bug fixes from FreeBSD 2.2-current have also been integrated.
  20
  21         Last, I have added the file `linux-1.2.x.patch' in the distribution.
  22 This patch for 1.2 kernels should be applied if you want to get better
  23 performances.
  24
  25         I remind you that dump and restore should be considered as software
  26 in BETA test.  Don't rely too much on them for your backups...
  27
  28 --
  29 Remy Card
  30 Remy.Card@freenix.fr
  31
  32 No to nuclear testings!