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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-08-24 07:36:36 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-08-24 07:36:36 +0000
commit59cf3747e3045a1cb778f502c5864a5881f1d60e (patch)
treef79f379b02f0c6d515c7dfeab34c54de03fe74bb /NEWS
parent30e41c2ddc0f3f1067a486e5f8554a3e2657de0e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-59cf3747e3045a1cb778f502c5864a5881f1d60e.tar.xz
POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
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@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now
outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options.
+ expand and unexpand now conform to POSIX better. They check for
+ blanks (which can include characters other than space and tab in
+ non-POSIX locales) instead of spaces and tabs. Unexpand now
+ preserves some blanks instead of converting them to tabs or spaces.
+
printf has several changes:
It now uses 'intmax_t' (not 'long int') to format integers, so it