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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-05-06 17:56:49 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-05-06 17:56:49 +0000
commitd5f20ebe16bd63a6485f07d313838f57bbfb2e36 (patch)
tree7ca0a4e45e907249d49a3735017fcb479378e526 /NEWS
parentf9aa4b0e4b1fd0392d05d010992de6aad8e19180 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d5f20ebe16bd63a6485f07d313838f57bbfb2e36.tar.xz
dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text".
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@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
chmod -w now complains if its behavior differs from what chmod a-w
would do, and similarly for chmod -r, chmod -x, etc.
+ dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text", which have an
+ effect only on nonstandard platforms that distinguish text from binary I/O.
+
join now supports a NUL field separator, e.g., "join -t '\0'".
join now detects and reports incompatible options, e.g., "join -t x -t y",