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@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ If you obtained this file as part of a "git clone", then see the README-hacking file. If this file came to you as part of a tar archive, then see the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. -These programs are intended to conform to POSIX (with BSD and other -extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. By default they conform -to older POSIX (1003.2-1992), and therefore support obsolete usages -like "head -10" and "chown owner.group file". This default is -overridden at build-time by the value of <unistd.h>'s _POSIX2_VERSION -macro, and this in turn can be overridden at runtime as described in +Like the rest of the GNU system, these programs mostly conform to +POSIX, with BSD and other extensions. For closer conformance, or +conformance to a particular POSIX version, set the POSIXLY_CORRECT +and the _POSIX2_VERSION environment variables, as described in the documentation under "Standards conformance". The ls, dir, and vdir commands are all separate executables instead of |