[NCLUG] Y2k problem in Gnu Tar still?

[aaron at tummy.com]

> Gnu doesn't appear to use minor numbers.  So if you download the
> latest tar from them, you get 1.13.  Any idea what the .17 means?
> Here is what my debugging found:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ has a tar-1.13.17.tar.gz,
tar-1.13.18.tar.gz, and a tar-1.13.19.tar.gz.  So, call these alphas
for 1.14.  Lots of potential goodies hanging out there.  Looks like
there's even a newer inetutils.  Doesn't look like the getpass(3)
usage has been fixed, though.

Aaron
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