Restrict usage on -e option (prevent array overflow with many -e and prevent excludin...

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: TODO,v 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.16 2000/06/01 18:30:08 stelian Exp $
 
 Need to verify:
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@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ All others:
 2.     More documentation? Examples, crontab?
 
 3.     Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems 
-       (lseek/read negative count).
+       (lseek/read negative count) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14.
+       Unfortunately, this seems to continue for a very few users).
 
 4.     Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
        make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
@@ -34,9 +35,11 @@ All others:
 6.     Add a compression mode using zlib on each file (see
        http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib).
 
-7.     Add some support in dump and restore for numbering in sequence
-       the output files (when dumping to a file). Something like -N <prefix>
-       which creates (or reads) <prefix>-1, <prefix>-2 etc...
-
-8.     Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
+7.     Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
 
+8.     From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>:
+         a archive_file
+            Archive file. Archive a dump table-of-contents  in
+            the   specified   archive_file   to   be  used  by
+            ufsrestore(1M) to determine whether a file  is  in
+            the dump file that is being restored.