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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