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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-02-13 23:30:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-02-13 23:30:58 +0000 |
| commit | 87f3f6a09a269322362746f168e94a5561f5ab4c (patch) | |
| tree | 2bda1868601476e30c84891fca1967e1dd497bc4 /old/textutils | |
| parent | be54312178c0952da4ba8f6653bb5139ce96f79e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-87f3f6a09a269322362746f168e94a5561f5ab4c.tar.xz | |
Clarify wording in the light of later comments from the Open Group
and from rms.
Diffstat (limited to 'old/textutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | old/textutils/NEWS | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS index a1722997d..92b209175 100644 --- a/old/textutils/NEWS +++ b/old/textutils/NEWS @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ Changes in release 2.1 dependent. Set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 to cause the utilities to support obsolete usage like "sort +1". * The following obsolete usages are no longer supported when conforming - to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which prohibits most digit-string options: + to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which (at the time this change was made) was thought + to say that implementations must reject most digit-string options: expand -N (instead, use expand -t N) head -N (instead, use head -c N or head -n N) fold -N (instead, use fold -w N) @@ -21,16 +22,18 @@ Changes in release 2.1 unexpand -N (instead, use unexpand --first-only -t N) uniq -N (instead, use uniq -f N) The following obsolete usages (options without arguments) are no - longer supported when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which - prohibits most options with optional arguments: + longer supported when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which (at the + time this change was made) was thought to say that implementations must + reject options with optional arguments: od -s (instead, use od --strings) od -w (instead, use od --width) pr -S (instead, use pr --sep-string) [2.0.20] * tr no longer gets failed a assertion for [==] or [::] * The following obsolete usages are no longer supported when conforming - to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which prohibits most options with leading "+": - sort +POS1 -POS2 (instead, use sort -k) + to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which says that arguments with leading "+" + are file names in these contexts: + sort +POS1 (instead, use sort -k) tail +N (instead, use tail -c +N or tail -n +N) uniq +N (instead, use uniq -s N) * Warnings are issued for obsolete usages on older hosts, |