tar: Authors

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1 1.5 GNU 'tar' Authors
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1 GNU 'tar' was originally written by John Gilmore, and modified by many
1 people.  The GNU enhancements were written by Jay Fenlason, then Joy
1 Kendall, and the whole package has been further maintained by Thomas
1 Bushnell, n/BSG, Franc,ois Pinard, Paul Eggert, and finally Sergey
1 Poznyakoff with the help of numerous and kind users.
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1    We wish to stress that 'tar' is a collective work, and owes much to
1 all those people who reported problems, offered solutions and other
1 insights, or shared their thoughts and suggestions.  An impressive, yet
1 partial list of those contributors can be found in the 'THANKS' file
1 from the GNU 'tar' distribution.
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1    Jay Fenlason put together a draft of a GNU 'tar' manual, borrowing
1 notes from the original man page from John Gilmore.  This was withdrawn
1 in version 1.11.  Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG and Amy Gorin worked on a
1 tutorial and manual for GNU 'tar'.  Franc,ois Pinard put version 1.11.8
1 of the manual together by taking information from all these sources and
1 merging them.  Melissa Weisshaus finally edited and redesigned the book
1 to create version 1.12.  The book for versions from 1.14 up to 1.30 were
1 edited by the current maintainer, Sergey Poznyakoff.
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1    For version 1.12, Daniel Hagerty contributed a great deal of
11 technical consulting.  In particular, he is the primary author of ⇒
 Backups.
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1    In July, 2003 GNU 'tar' was put on CVS at savannah.gnu.org (see
1 <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar>), and active development and
1 maintenance work has started again.  Currently GNU 'tar' is being
1 maintained by Paul Eggert, Sergey Poznyakoff and Jeff Bailey.
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1    Support for POSIX archives was added by Sergey Poznyakoff.
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