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  http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC139
- make COMPRESS_BZIP and COMPRESS_GZIP constants actually work and fix their
  documentation

1.44 19/01/2009:
- Address #41798: Nonempty $\ when writing a Tar file produces a
  corrupt Tar file
- Textual fix to Makefile.PL diagnostics

1.42 13/12/2008:
- Address #40426: Archive Tar to support direct Archive::Tar::File adds
  It is now possible to add Archive::Tar::File objects via $tar->add_files
- Address #40016 (Archive::Tar assumes $> won't change): CAN_CHOWN is now a
  dynamic check upon extraction. This allows scripts to drop privileges when
  desired
- Address take 2 of #39933: [PATCH] handle ../ directory name on VMS
  John M. sent in a better way to do directory name translation.

1.40 13/10/2008:
- Add $class->has_zlib_support and $class->has_bzip2_support to
  discern which A::T can support