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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2007-02-24 12:24:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-02-24 12:24:27 +0100 |
| commit | 3ea177e3fa5a42dfe01b63b4c854c3478a1ea60d (patch) | |
| tree | 5a2b3fc32078f94f4fb8450a4ff5181c3eced7b8 /NEWS | |
| parent | 75460e090c5bd114912a659ad73e469c08a2d60c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3ea177e3fa5a42dfe01b63b4c854c3478a1ea60d.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: sort no longer compresses temporaries by default.
* bootstrap.conf: Remove findprog.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): The default is to not
compress. Don't treat "" specially.
* src/sort.c: Don't include findprog.h.
(create_temp): Compress only if the user specified --compress-program.
* tests/misc/sort-compress: Adjusts tests to match new behavior.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -44,10 +44,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - By default, sort usually compresses each temporary file it writes. + sort's new --compress-program=PROG option specifies a compression + program to use when writing and reading temporary files. This can help save both time and disk space when sorting large inputs. - The default compression program is gzip, but this can be overridden - with sort's new --compress-program=PROG option. ** New features |