merge with 1.8g

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diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS
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@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 Major changes in release 1.9:
 * cat -v /dev/null works on more systems
+* od's --compatible (-C) flag renamed to --backward-compatible (-B)
+* --help and --version exit successfully
+* --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the
+  correspondence between short and long-named options.
+* fix bug in cut.  Now `echo 'a:b:c:' | cut -d: -f3-' works.
+  Before it printed `c' instead of `c:'
+* csplit allows repeat counts to be specified via `{*}'.
+* csplit accepts a new option, --suffix=format that supercedes the
+  --digits option.  The --digits option will continue to work.
+* csplit accepts a new option, --elide-empty-files.
+* configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
+  some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
+* work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
+  ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
+  and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
+
 Major changes in release 1.8:
 * added non-ANSIfied version of memchr.c from GNU libc.