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doc: only distribute 5 years of ChangeLogs
Remove old log files that have corresponding entries in the source code repository. This saves about 2.5MB uncompressed, 0.5M compressed. * Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): Adjust to taking all logs since a particular version (8.15 in this case). Also mention in the truncated log where to get older entries. (changelog_etc): Remove the no longer distributed files. * build-aux/git-log-fix: Remove now unused entries. * ChangeLog-200[5-8]: Delete. * doc/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * po/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * old/*: Likewise.
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-2007-10-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (chroot invocation): List two systems on which
- chroot works when run by non-root.
-
-2007-09-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Correct description of relative
- operator precedence. Reported by hanpingtian@gmail.com.
-
-2007-08-25 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- Avoid case-insensitive clash in one-page-per-node html docs.
- * coreutils.texi (Concept index): Rename from Index.
-
-2007-07-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Revise node structure per new fdl.texi.
-
-2007-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (rmdir invocation): Fix a tiny typo.
-
-2007-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * constants.texi: Remove from version control.
- This file has always been generated.
- * .gitignore: Add constants.texi.
-
-2007-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Add advice about saving
- output to a file.
-
-2007-04-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Adjust synopsis to show that an
- OPTION is required. Reported by Rudolf Kastl.
-
-2007-03-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Document escapes in output
- format. Reported by Armijn Hemel.
-
-2007-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- Fix manual in response to bug reports by Dan Jacobson.
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Explain numeric sorts better.
- Compress self-congratulation into a simple "comparison is exact"
- notice; the --general-numeric-sort option already explains the
- tradeoffs.
- (seq invocation): Add example of -f.
-
-2007-03-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that --preserve=timestamps
- doesn't preserve time stamps on symbolic links.
- Reported by Polo Talnir in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866>.
-
-2007-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (df invocation): With -P, the default block size
- and output format is not affected by DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, or
- BLOCKSIZE.
-
-2007-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi
- (Input processing in ptx, mkdir invocation, rmdir invocation):
- @item -> @itemx to fix some typos.
-
-2007-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (mkdir invocation): Say how to set the file
- permission bits of a parent directory with mkdir -p.
-
-2007-01-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- Document new syntax: "chown +0:+287 file", "chgrp +99 file"
- * coreutils.texi (Disambiguating names and IDs): New section.
- (chown invocation, chgrp invocation): Mention the new syntax
- with an xref to the new section.
-
-2007-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention the
- workarounds to accommodate the Apple Terminal bug.
-
-2007-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (base64 invocation): When decoding, newlines
- are always accepted.
-
-2007-01-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- Document what the ".0" in e.g., "-k 2,3.0" means, and...
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ... that it can be applied to the
- field-end spec, but not the field-start one. Patch from Evan Hunt.
-
-2006-12-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Improve the documentation
- for bs, ibs, obs, and cbs. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
- Patch by Olivier Delhomme.
- (dd invocation): Add to the description of cbs.
- (dd invocation): Specify that bs=N overrides only any
- _preceding_ ibs and obs settings. Spotted by Andreas Schwab.
-
-2006-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Remove two doubled words.
- (Treating / specially): With --preserve-root, chgrp and chown
- will not modify "/", even through a symlink.
-
-2006-11-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Fix typo: s/setgid/setuid/.
- Reported by Georg Neis as Debian bug 400778.
-
-2006-10-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which
- the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length".
- Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre.
-
-2006-10-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Describe --one-file-system.
-
-2006-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (groups invocation): "groups" no longer prefixes
- the output with "user :" unless more than one user is specified.
-
-2006-09-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that -i and -f are
- independent. Clarify -i's behavior.
- (Disk usage): Clarify intro. Problem reported by Van Ly.
-
-2006-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Ignore -f when standard input
- is a FIFO, too.
-
-2006-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Treating / specially): --preserve-root is
- now the default for rm.
- (rm invocation): Likewise. Also, document that you can't
- remove `.' or `..'. Use the POSIX term "root directory"
- rather than the more-ambiguous "file system root".
-
-2006-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * .cvsignore: Add Makefile.in, coreutils.html, coreutils.pdf,
- coreutils.ps, coreutils.tps. Remove coreutils.cm (dunno what it
- is, but the makefile doesn't mention it). Remove coreutils.info
- as it is subsumed by coreutils.info*.
-
-2006-08-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * .cvsignore: Add files that are now generated by ../bootstrap.
-
-2006-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * Makefile.in, fdl.texi, getdate.texi:
- Remove from CVS, since ../bootstrap generates them automatically.
-
-2006-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Reflect doclicense.texi->fdl.texi renaming.
-
-2006-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * ChangeLog: Add copyright notice.
- * Makefile.am: Likewise.
- * getdate.texi: Likewise.
- * perm.texi: Likewise.
- * getdate.texi: Update to version 1.2 of the GNU FDL.
- * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
- (Copying This Manual): Renamed from GNU Free Documentation License.
- Now an appendix. Include fdl.texi rather than doclicense.texi.
- * fdl.tex: Renamed from doclicense.texi. Latest version from FSF.
- * perm.texi: Add copyright notice.
-
-2006-08-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (df invocation): df exits nonzero if it outputs
- nothing.
-
-2006-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn about oflag=append without
- conv=notrunc. See Debian bug 373736.
-
-2006-08-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (shuf invocation, Random sources): New sections.
- (Operating on sorted files): Add shuf.
- (sort invocation, shred invocation): New option --random-source.
- (sort invocation): Fix typo: -R -> -r.
-
-2006-07-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (install invocation, mkdir invocation):
- Add cross-references to Directory Setuid and Setgid.
- (install-invocation): The default mode is no longer equivalent to 755.
- * perm.texi (Changing Special Mode Bits): Clarify u+s versus
- a+s versus +s, and likewise for g+s.
- (Numeric Modes): Bring back example of 0055 == 55. 4755 no
- longer clears setgid bit on directories.
- (Directory Setuid and Setgid): Numeric modes now affect setuid
- and setgid on directories only if they set these bits. This
- is so that leading 0 has no effect on numeric modes.
-
-2006-07-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Mention that missing
- pieces of information are marked with "?". From Paul Eggert.
-
-2006-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * perm.texi (Directory Setuid and Setgid): Explain that this is a
- GNU extension, and that other systems behave differently here.
-
-2006-07-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Clarify that the
- restricted deletion flag is another name for the sticky bit.
- * perm.texi (Mode Structure): The restricted deletion flag
- restricts only unprivileged users.
- (Mode Structure, Symbolic Modes, Numeric Modes): Be more careful
- about distinguishing file mode bits from permissions bits,
- and about execute versus search permission. The FreeBSD command
- is chflags, not chrflags.
-
-2006-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Change GNU to @acronym{GNU} in a few places.
- Use "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" a bit more consistently.
- Use "appropriate privileges" rather than "super-user" a bit
- more consistently.
- (install invocation): Parent directories are now 755 without uid
- or gid changing. The default mode is now 0755, not 755.
- (mkdir invocation): Rewrite the top-level usage description, since
- I couldn't easily follow the old one. It's now 3 lines not 8.
- For -m, describe file permission bits versus other bits, and note
- that mkdir is atomic if you don't mention special bits.
- (chmod invocation): Mention what chmod does to setgid and setuid bits.
- * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Modernize the explanation of the
- setuid and setgid bits on directories.
- (Changing Special Mode Bits): Mention that a implies both u and g
- for s. Cross reference to new node.
- (Numeric Modes): Don't claim that 0055 is the same as 55; this isn't
- true any more. Mention new node.
- 4755 is now like u=rwxs,go=rx,g-s, not like u=rwxs,go=rx.
- (Directory Setuid and Setgid): New node.
-
-2006-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Squeezing): Separate doubled "the", so typo-checkers
- don't complain.
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Enforce the zeros vs. zeroes consistency.
-
-2006-07-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Fix some typos. Use `zeros' consistently (both
- `zeros' and `zeroes' are correct).
-
-2006-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): With no operand, 'tail -f' now
- silently ignores the '-f' only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe
- and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
-
-2006-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): seq now uses long double
- internally rather than double. It now defaults to a minimal fixed
- point format if possible. It lets you use %a, %A, %E, %F, %G.
- Don't assume printf doesn't work for numbers that fit in 64 but
- not 32 bits; typically they work these days. Improve discussion
- of large integers and update the rounding-error numbers.
-
-2006-06-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): 'sort +1 -2' is now supported
- even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure
- extension to POSIX.
-
-2006-06-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Remove ./ prefix from example.
- From Padraig Brady.
-
-2006-06-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Spell out `--files0-from' in
- the example. Suggestion from Bob Proulx.
-
- * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Document new --files0-from option.
-
-2006-06-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document that accepting
- multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions.
- Reported by Dan Jacobson.
-
-2006-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use $(_W) and $(W_) instead of
- assuming grep -w (which is not portable).
-
-2006-05-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
-
- * Makefile.am: Use `AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS' rather than
- overwriting `MAKEINFO', so that `missing' can do its job.
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use `$(EGREP)' instead of `grep -E'.
- (check-texinfo): Use literal `{' only in brackets, i.e., [{] or [}],
- to avoid triggering an error from Solaris 2.6's grep.
-
-2006-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since
- it's going away.
-
-2006-05-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds.
-
-2006-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (head invocation, tail invocation, sort invocation):
- Give advice about porting to hosts that support only obsolete syntax.
- Problem reported by Zack Weinberg.
-
-2006-04-23 Francesco Montorsi <fr_m@hotmail.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Describe new option:
- --group-directories-first.
-
-2006-04-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Add P for Solaris
- 10 ports. Add commented-out entries for other types that POSIX
- says are possible, or that I observed in FreeBSD documentation.
-
-2006-04-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Input processing in ptx): Remove mention of the
- default --ignore file, /usr/local/lib/eign. That file has never
- been used. Reported by Eric Blake.
-
-2006-04-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): expr exit status is 3 only for
- internal errors now; 2 is also for invalid values in expressions.
-
- (What information is listed): Document 'ls' type letters.
- Problem reported by Lincoln Martin.
-
-2006-04-09 Ori Avtalion <oavtal@bezeqint.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Top): Add 'hostid' to System context menu line.
- (trivial change)
-
-2006-03-22 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (General options in ptx): Undocument --copyright.
-
-2006-03-27 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dirname invocation): Macro in previous patch
- was too broad.
-
-2006-03-11 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (basename invocation, dirname invocation):
- Improve documentation to match recent // patches.
-
-2006-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): nohup now redirects stderr to
- nohup.out if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty.
-
-2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags directory, nolinks.
- Alphabetize nofollow.
-
-2006-02-17 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Add base64 section.
-
-2006-02-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Fix typo in last patch.
- (paste invocation): Fix whitespace.
-
-2006-02-18 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Document new -I option, and new
- --interactive behavior.
-
-2006-02-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
- backslash-escape causes an error message -- it doesn't.
- Mention that `\' also removes any special significance, so
- is useful for [, ], *, -. Prompted by Richard Neill in
- http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=14937
-
-2006-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high
- order bit.
-
-2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the
- count is optional, so put square brackets around it.
-
-2006-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Invalid dates are rejected.
- (Time of day items): Mention the possibility of leap seconds.
- Problem reported by Dr. David Alan Gilbert.
-
- * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym around "ISO" uniformly.
- (Date conversion specifiers): Explain %g, %G, and %V a bit better.
-
-2006-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Say that --retry
- is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.
-
-2006-01-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
- file permission bits.
- * coreutils.texi (mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): -m
- affects only file permission bits.
-
-2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify that a blank is a space
- or a tab.
-
-2005-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.
- [--format]: Add example. Distinguish from --printf.
- Sort option descriptions.
-
-2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.
- (cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.
-
-2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of
- --random-sort, and use a simpler example.
-
-2005-12-10 Frederik Eaton <frederik@ofb.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed.
-
-2005-12-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New noatime flag.
-
-2005-11-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (df invocation): Document treatment of dummy file
- systems better.
-
-2005-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for
- successful links.
- (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
- option and at most one file.
-
-2005-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Capitalize two sentences in an
- enumerated list and fix a typo. From Aaron Hawley.
-
-2005-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults to
- --time-style='locale', which in turn acts like
- --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
-
-2005-11-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Don't mention --directory (-d).
-
-2005-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
- like "tail -2" more precisely.
- (touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.
-
-2005-08-28 David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Document SHA-1 and SHA-2 utilities.
-
-2005-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * doc/coreutils.texi (Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):
- (vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.
-
-2005-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document du's -m option,
- now that we've decided to keep it.
- (who invocation): Remove documentation for deprecated --idle (-i).
-
-2005-10-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Avoid a few overfull/underfull hboxes.
-
-2005-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
- "touch -" now touches standard output.
-
-2005-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.
-
-2005-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): uname -a no longer generates
- the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.
-
-2005-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):
- Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z. Use
- "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time
- and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
- it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
- Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
- (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
- -i and -p.
-
-2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document "niceness" versus
- "nice value" versus "scheduling priority".
-
-2005-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Use "niceness", not "nice value"
- to talk about nice values offset by -20. Don't use the word
- "priority" when niceness is intended.
-
-2005-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Itemize the defaults.
- From Karl Berry.
-
-2005-08-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove square
- brackets in --reply=[HOW]. Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.
-
-2005-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple
- FILE inputs.
-
-2005-07-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (false invocation):
- Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits
- with status >1 on some hosts.
- (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.
-
-2005-07-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longer
- affects nohup's behavior. Input is redirected from /dev/null.
-
-2005-07-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary option
- (available on MS-DOS-like platforms only). Explain when text and
- binary mode are used now.
- (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it
- causes "*" to be output. Explain when text and binary mode are
- used now.
-
-2005-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.
- (mv invocation): Likewise.
-
-2005-06-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.
-
-2005-06-14 William Brendling <wbrendling@gmail.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): New options --last-time and
- --time-style.
-
-2005-06-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Also catch uses of path, pathname.
-
-2005-06-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred
- works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode.
- Patch from Mark Melahn.
-
-2005-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).
-
-2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
-
-2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
- or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
- * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
- "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
-
-2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
- date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
- Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
-
-2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
-
-2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
- behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
-
-2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
- renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
- --directory.
-
-2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
- (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
- These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
- deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
- (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
- (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
- (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
- Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
- (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
- a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
- Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
- Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
- Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
- (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
- nowadays.
-
-2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
- since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
- (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
- (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
- (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
- 1003.1-2001.
- (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
- (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
- (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
- (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
- (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
- (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
- (uniq invocation): Likewise.
- (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
- (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
- (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
-
-2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
- the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
- (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
- The umask does not affect the point of departure.
- Problem reported by Mike Stone.
-
-2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
- than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
-
-2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
- listed directories too, not just their contents.
-
-2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
- INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
-
-2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
- (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
- Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
- to the usage messages.
- (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
- for consistency.
-
-2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
-
-2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
-
-2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
- may be treated as errors.
-
-2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
- clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
- Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
- with POSIX. All uses changed.
- Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
- (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
- Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
- Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
- Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
- Say why %F is preferred for dates.
- (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
- Likewise for other changes.
- (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
- Document #. Give an example for %9B.
-
-2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
- (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
- For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
- For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
- For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
- For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
- For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
- For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options
- are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
- (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
- For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
- For %e, use blank in example.
- For %h, use @code for %b.
- For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
- (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
- Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
- Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
- Mention field widths an modifiers.
- (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
-
-2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
- of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
-
-2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
- with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
- file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
-
-2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
- "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
- (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
- by Stephane Chazelas.
-
-2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
- in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
-
-2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
- Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
-
-2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
-
-2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
- Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
-
-2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
-
-2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
- adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
-
-2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
- than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
- Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
- Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
- Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
-
-2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
- (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
- (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
- chars are still printed as '?' some times.
- (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
- on non-directories.
- (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
- The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
-
- * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
- Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
-
-2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
-
-2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
- seconds, and bytes per second.
-
-2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
- (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
- portable).
-
-2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
- (Top): Update menu.
- (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
- stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
- Mention TZ.
- * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
-
-2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
- than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
- consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
- yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
- the SUS FAQ
- <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
-
-2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
-
-2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
- OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
- apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
- that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
- checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
- checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
-
-2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
- well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
-
-2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
- index entries to proper paragraph.
-
-2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
- the list of words to avoid.
-
-2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
- (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
- with POSIX terminology.
- (test invocation, pwd invocation):
- Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
- built-in commands.
- (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
- Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
- (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
- spellings, or duplicates.
-
-2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
-
-2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
-
-2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
- the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
- about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
- older systems.
-
-2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
- is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
- so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
- Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
-
-2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
- (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
- stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
-
-2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
- comparison, too. Revamp its description.
- (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
-
-2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
- options.
- (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
- expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
- nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
- This program doesn't reorder options.
- (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
- (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
- (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
- and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
- Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
- (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
- versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
-
-2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
- and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
- (POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
- for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
-
-2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
- quoting strings for the shell.
-
-2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
- are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
- ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
-
-2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
- * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
- rather than "tabstop".
- (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
- POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
- converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
- more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
-
-2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
- group must always be preceded by separator.
- "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
- Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
- set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
- denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
- chown -h.
-
-2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
- supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
-
-2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
- * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
- stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
- option-argument.
- (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
- not to "shred ./-".
- (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
-
-2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
- how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
- implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
- isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
- exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
- that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
- the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
- "most shells" have one.
-
-2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
-
- * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
- "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
-
-2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
- Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
- Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
- Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
-
-2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
- install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
- short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
- --no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
- the language is similar for all.
-
-2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
- Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
- Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
- previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
- and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
- In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
- interpretation of operands as options.
- Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
- Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
- Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
- Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
- since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
- Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
- where appropriate.
- (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
- (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
- for clarity.
- (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
- file names containing some special characters other than newline.
- (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
- Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
- (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
- Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
- (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
- in examples.
- (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
- indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
- extension).
- (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
- style for the date.
- (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
- isn't allowed.
- (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
- fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
- options from their operands.
- (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
- Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
- current documentation is unchanged from his article.
- (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
- assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
- locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
- Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
- unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
- Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
- Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
-
-2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
- than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
-
-2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
- invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
- Likewise.
- (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
- that we have --no-target-directory.
- (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
- --no-dereference.
- (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
- link invocation.
-
-2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
- --target-directory in synopsis, too.
-
-2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
- (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
- work unconditionally.
-
-2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
-
-2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
- how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
-
-2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
- does with byte/character ranges.
-
-2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
-
-2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
-
-2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
- * coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
-
-2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
- might write F before reading all the input.
-
-2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
-
-2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
- that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
- more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
- what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
- a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
- Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
- Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
- (Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
- than agglomerating them.
-
-2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
- file system time stamp resolution into account.
-
- * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
- (cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
-
-2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
-
-2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
- and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
-
-2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
-
-2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
-
-2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
-
-2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
- consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
-
-2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
- (du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
-
-2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
- --total (-c), not with --summarize.
-
-2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
- `overfull hbox' warnings.
-
-2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
-
-2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
- Describe use of fractional seconds.
- (date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
- * getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
- * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
- (Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
-
- * getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
- get_date when talking about the function name.
- (Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
- info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
- info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
- fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
- (General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
- features.
- (General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
- Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
- (Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
- Describe fractional-second syntax.
-
-2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
- in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
-
- * coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
- The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
-
-2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
- ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
- Reported by Arvind Autar.
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
- cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
-
- * coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
- regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
- Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
-
-2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
- back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
- 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
-
-2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
- currently evokes a warning.
-
-2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
- Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
- consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
- that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
- problem.
-
-2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
- in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
-
-2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
- --date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
-
-2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
- Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
- Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
-
-2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
- Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
- (factor invocation): Add an example.
- Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
-
-2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
- Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
- Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
- Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
-
-2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
- might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
- Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
- status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
- since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
- (sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
- status pattern.
- (chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
- Remove duplicate description of status 127.
- (env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
- of status 1.
- (nice invocation): Likewise.
-
-2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
- both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
-
-2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
-
- Factor out some common options.
- * coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
- (What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
- (install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
- (df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
-
-2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- Document the exit status of each and every program.
- * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
- makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
- (chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
- (nice invocation): Likewise.
- (Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
- Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
-
-2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
- mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
-
-2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
-
-2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
- Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
- output columns.
- (The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
- 'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
- the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
-
-2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
- POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
- consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
- sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
-
-2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
- New sections.
- (rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
- Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
-
-2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
- describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
- (chgrp invocation): And here.
-
-2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
-
-2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
- probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
-
-2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
- The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
- for signless offets.
-
-2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
-
-2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
- From A Costa.
-
-2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
- "whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
- -t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
-
-2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
- Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
- (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
-
-2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (split invocation):
- Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
-
-2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
- * coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
- it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
-
-2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
- fuzz in relative units.
-
-2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
- that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
-
-2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
- makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
-
-2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
-
-2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
- `@heading'.
-
-2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
- expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
- This change is for conformance to POSIX.
-
-2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
- terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
-
-2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
- now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
- From Bob Proulx.
- (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
- Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
-
-2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
- `tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
- (chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
-
-2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
- to the related examples.
- (Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
- Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
-
-2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
- the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
- Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
-
-2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
-
-2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
- Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
- duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
- consistent with POSIX.
- (uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
- output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
- Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
-
-2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
- make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
- Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
-
-2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
- It uses standard exit codes.
- (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
- `ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
-
-2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
- <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
- * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
- \0NNN in the %b operand.
-
-2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
- I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
-
- * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
-
-2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
- now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
- (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
-
-2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
- unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
- Reported by Nelson Beebe.
-
-2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
- From Paul Eggert.
- (sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
-
-2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
- is now the default for non-regular files.
-
-2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
- Suggestion from Michael Stone.
-
-2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
- Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
- (stat invocation): Describe %B.
-
-2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
-
- * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
- permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
- override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
- of @code for program names.
-
-2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
- on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
-
-2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
- direntry lines.
-
- * coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
- Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
- dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
- Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
- Mostly from Karl Berry.
-
-2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
- --output-delimiter=STR.
-
-2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
- with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
-
- * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
- (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
-
- * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
- From Karl Berry.
-
-2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
- --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
-
-2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
- compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
- and somewhat contradictory.
-
- * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
- formatting): Undo last change.
-
-2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
- s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
- Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
- specified on the command line.
-
-2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
-
-2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
- numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
-
-2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
- Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
-
-2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
- Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
- Include a lot more description, with examples.
-
-2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
- change \0x prefix to \x.
- Change \xhhh to \xhh.
-
-2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
- thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
-
- * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
- This affects display format as well as block size.
- Fractional block counts are rounded up.
- ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
- A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
- A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
- (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
- (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
- ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
- ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
- --block-size.
-
-2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
- NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
- (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
- (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
-
-2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
- Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
-
-2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
-
-2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
- POSIX 1003.1-2001:
- - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
- - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
- - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
- 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
-
-2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
- %g, %G, and %V
-
-2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
- that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
- Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
-
-2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
- From Martin Michlmayr.
-
-2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
- Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
- From Paul Eggert.
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
-
-2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
-
-2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
- to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
-
-2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
- since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
-
-2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
-
-2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
-
-2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
- output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
-
-2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
- @acronym{POSIX}.
-
-2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
- * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
-
-2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
-
-2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
- Document POSIX signals better.
-
-2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
- Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
-
-2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
-
-2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
- thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
-
-2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
- behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
- using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
-
-2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
- written in the same order that it is read, and is written
- exactly once.
-
-2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
- for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
- cp -r behavior.
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
- Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
- equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
- symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
- links unless you also specify -P.
-
-2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
- preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
-
-2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
- This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
-
-2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
- in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
-
-2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
- time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
-
-2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
- -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
-
-2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
- From Ian Lance Taylor.
- (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
-
-2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
- (Standards Conformance): New section.
-
-2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
- and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
-
-2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
- support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
- * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
- change to "touch", for fileutils).
-
-2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
-
-2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
-
-2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
- Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
-
-2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
- not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
- Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
- (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
-
-2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
-
-2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
- no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
- `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
- cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
- Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
- Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
-
-2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
- /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
-
-2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
- --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
-
-2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
- be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
-
-2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
- From Herbert Xu.
-
-2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
- extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
- the input contains no unpairable lines.
-
-2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi:
- New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
- and -o or --operating-system.
- 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
- New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
- Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
- and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
- the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
-
-2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
- with no separators.
-
-2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
- as per POSIX.
-
-2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
-
-2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
-
- * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
- to quote tokens.
-
-2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
- cp (via copy.c).
-
-2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
- * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
-
- * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
- * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
-
- * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
- Reported by Keith Thompson.
-
-2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
-
- * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
- does when given no arguments.
-
-2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
-
- * textutils.texi: Remove file.
-
- * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
- (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
-
- This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.
-
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