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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-07-11 18:20:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-07-11 18:20:05 +0000 |
| commit | 1ee7165eba92fe48acc0c85776cf3464e3fcd60d (patch) | |
| tree | b1da99860e8aecb8234be6fcd0a09ef98a8cffa8 | |
| parent | 580d1e6d6d97c3e6f0fca764091e70319350c9a2 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1ee7165eba92fe48acc0c85776cf3464e3fcd60d.tar.xz | |
Binary input and output are now implemented more consistently.
These changes affect only platforms like MS-DOS that distinguish
between binary and text files.
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1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -48,6 +48,31 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "Utility Syntax Guidelines" in the Minutes of the January 2005 Meeting <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_239.html>. +** Binary input and output are now implemented more consistently. + These changes affect only platforms like MS-DOS that distinguish + between binary and text files. + + The following programs now always use text input/output: + + expand unexpand + + The following programs now always use binary input/output to copy data: + + cp install mv shred + + The following programs now always use binary input/output to copy + data, except for stdin and stdout when it is a terminal. + + head tac tail tee tr + (cat behaves similarly, unless one of the options -bensAE is used.) + + cat's --binary or -B option has been removed. It existed only on + MS-DOS-like platforms, and didn't work as documented there. + + md5sum and sha1sum now obey the -b or --binary option, even if + standard input is a terminal, and they no longer report files to be + binary if they actually read them in text mode. + ** Changes for better conformance to POSIX cp, ln, mv, rm changes: |