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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-06 19:31:43 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-06 19:31:43 +0000
commit032b5b3bcfbcc1c46604f7cd4de0ab43acf9c855 (patch)
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parent9011b529175e85d95fe2b597f77bce714fc8e85c (diff)
downloadcoreutils-032b5b3bcfbcc1c46604f7cd4de0ab43acf9c855.tar.xz
(tr invocation): Remove the section describing
how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
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@@ -5007,37 +5007,6 @@ square brackets from interpretation by a shell.
@end itemize
-@node Warnings in tr
-@subsection Warning messages
-
-@vindex POSIXLY_CORRECT
-Setting the environment variable @env{POSIXLY_CORRECT} turns off the
-following warning and error messages, for strict compliance with
-@acronym{POSIX}. Otherwise, the following diagnostics are issued:
-
-@enumerate
-
-@item
-When the @option{--delete} option is given but @option{--squeeze-repeats}
-is not, and @var{set2} is given, @sc{gnu} @command{tr} by default prints
-a usage message and exits, because @var{set2} would not be used.
-The @acronym{POSIX} specification says that @var{set2} must be ignored in
-this case. Silently ignoring arguments is a bad idea.
-
-@item
-When an ambiguous octal escape is given. For example, @samp{\400}
-is actually @samp{\40} followed by the digit @samp{0}, because the
-value 400 octal does not fit into a single byte.
-
-@end enumerate
-
-@sc{gnu} @command{tr} does not provide complete BSD or System V compatibility.
-For example, it is impossible to disable interpretation of the @acronym{POSIX}
-constructs @samp{[:alpha:]}, @samp{[=c=]}, and @samp{[c*10]}. Also, @sc{gnu}
-@command{tr} does not delete zero bytes automatically, unlike traditional
-Unix versions, which provide no way to preserve zero bytes.
-
-
@node expand invocation
@section @command{expand}: Convert tabs to spaces