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diff --git a/old/sh-utils/NEWS b/old/sh-utils/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index 83d0482f5..000000000 --- a/old/sh-utils/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,283 +0,0 @@ - [2.0.15] -* date no longer accepts e.g., September 31 in the MMDDhhmm syntax -* fix a bug in this package's .m4 files and in configure.ac - [2.0.14] -* nohup's behavior is changed as follows, to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001: - - nohup no longer adjusts scheduling priority; use "nice" for that. - - nohup now redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal. - - nohup exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked, - 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found. - [2.0.13] -* uname and uptime work better on *BSD systems -* pathchk now exits nonzero for a path with a directory component - that specifies a non-directory - [2.0.12] -* kill: new program -* who accepts new options: --all (-a), --boot (-b), --dead (-d), --login, - --process (-p), --runlevel (-r), --short (-s), --time (-t), --users (-u). - The -u option now produces POSIX-specified results and is the same as - the long option `--users'. --idle is no longer the same as -u. -* The following changes apply on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, - and are required by the new POSIX standard: - - `date -I' is no longer supported. Instead, use `date --iso-8601'. - - `nice -NUM' is no longer supported. Instead, use `nice -n NUM'. -* 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. -* 'expr' now uses the LC_COLLATE locale for string comparison, as per POSIX. -* 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote' to quote tokens; - this removes an incompatibility with POSIX. -* date -d 'last friday' would print a date/time that was one hour off - (e.g., 23:00 on *thursday* rather than 00:00 of the preceding friday) - when run such that the current time and the target date/time fall on - opposite sides of a daylight savings time transition. - This problem arose only with relative date strings like `last monday'. - It was not a problem with strings that include absolute dates. -* factor is twice as fast, for large numbers - [2.0.11] -* setting the date now works properly, even when using -u -* `date -f - < /dev/null' no longer dumps core -* some DOS/Windows portability changes - [2.0j] -* `date -d DATE' now parses certain relative DATEs correctly - [2.0i] -* fixed a bug introduced in 2.0h that made many programs fail with a - `write error' when invoked with the --version option - [2.0h] -* all programs fail when printing --help or --version output to a full device -* printf exits nonzero upon write failure -* yes now detects and terminates upon write failure -* date --rfc-822 now always emits day and month names from the `C' locale -* portability tweaks for Solaris8, Ultrix, and DOS - [2.0g] -* date now handles two-digit years with leading zeros correctly. -* printf interprets unicode, \uNNNN \UNNNNNNNN, on systems with the - required support; from Bruno Haible. -* stty's rprnt attribute now works on HPUX 10.20 -* seq's --equal-width option works more portably - [2.0f] -* fix build problems with ut_name vs. ut_user - [2.0e] -* stty: fix long-standing bug that caused test failures on at least HPUX - systems when COLUMNS was set to zero -* still more portability fixes -* unified lib/: now that directory and most of the configuration framework - is common between fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils - [2.0d] -* fix portability problem with sleep vs lib/strtod.c's requirement for -lm - [2.0c] -* fix portability problems with nanosleep.c and with the new code in sleep.c - [2.0b] -* Regenerate lib/Makefile.in so that nanosleep.c is distributed. - [2.0a] -* sleep accepts floating point arguments on command line -* sleep's clock continues counting down when sleep is suspended -* when a suspended sleep process is resumed, it continues sleeping if - there is any time remaining -* who once again prints whatever host information it has, even without --lookup -Changes in release 2.0 -* disable stty tests (otherwise they fail) when `make check' is run via rsh - [1.16m] -* false and true now ignore --help and --version when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set - [1.16l] -* false and true are now C programs rather than shell scripts - [1.16k] -* fix typos in my version of AC_SEARCH_LIBS. -* fix dates on config files so builders don't need autoconf/automake - [1.16j] -* work around problems with my use of AC_SEARCH_LIBS -* fix a bug in id - [1.16i] -* portability tweaks for lib/readutmp.[ch] and src/date.c - [1.16h] -* seq with no arguments now elicits a useful diagnostic rather than a segfault -* portability tweaks to work around utmpname differences -* who works on Solaris - [1.16g] -* factor now uses uintmax_t, so the largest number it can factor is now 2^64 - 1 - on systems with type `long long'. -* nohup no longer modifies the shell's search path -* `basename /' now prints `/', per the single unix spec -* `who --lookup' no longer erroneously reports `localhost' for IP addresses - for which it could not do a reverse lookup. -* `id user' wouldn't report a group id in some situations. Now it always does. - [1.16f] -* chroot now calls chdir ("/") after chroot. -* `date -s' now exits with nonzero status upon failure -* new autoconf tests detect bugs in vendor mktime from Irix-6.4 and SunOS4.1.4 - Your executables will be a little larger on such systems because you'll use - GNU's mktime function, but date will work more reliably. -* hostid: new program -* `yes --help' and `yes --version' print those strings when the POSIXLY_CORRECT - environment variable is set -* who no longer does DNS lookups by default -- the new option, --lookup (-l), - enables lookups - [1.16e] -* pinky: new lightweight finger-style program - [1.16d] -* the groups script now exits non-zero and doesn't print anything more - when `id' fails - [1.16c] -* date -u -d DATE now prints the correct date -* don't remove already-installed su unless it is possible to install the - new one setuid root. - [1.16b] - [1.16a] -* expr accepts new unary operator, quote. -* expr now returns 0 for failed matches where pattern contained e.g., `\\(' -* date -d DATE now works on Unicos systems -* add tests for factor and more for date. -* factor runs a lot faster for large 64-bit inputs -* date works with relative offsets involving the `next' keyword - -Changes in release 1.16 -* stty -tabs works properly -* add tests for date -* date --date "02/29/1996 - 1 year" now works properly - -Changes in release 1.15 -* nice works with very recently-changed GNU libc getopt -* fix several bugs in m4 macros used to create `configure' script -* id works on systems with disfunctional getgroups function -* uptime configure test detects /proc/uptime on Linux - -Changes in release 1.14 -* fix bug in getdate.y that broke date's --date=DATE option on systems - like SunOS4. -* expr treats unadorned ? and + as literals. To make expr treat them as - operators you have to use \? and \+. - -Changes in release 1.13 -* two patches for ISC -* Regenerate all Makefile.in using a patched version of automake-1.1l. - [1.12s] -* lots of little bug fixes -- see ChangeLog - [1.12r] -* uname --processor (-p) works on systems that have sysinfo and define - SI_ARCHITECTURE. -* stty works better on systems like i386-pc-isc3.0 -* date --date=DATE accepts dates like those in an RCS log listing, e.g., - `1992/11/01 05:44:34'. -* printf now warns if excess arguments are ignored. -* tee no longer fails immediately upon receipt of SIGPIPE - [1.12q] -* running `make check' runs tests of nice -* lots of configuration-related improvements -* nice allows `+' in options like -+8 and -+13. -* when matching, expr warns about non-portability when the first character - of the basic regular expression is `^' -* `id user' no longer prints bogus group list -* uses automake-generated Makefile templates -* date accepts new %V format -* date's %U and %W formats work properly -* nice option handling works with 2-digit old-style-option adjustments. - Now, `nice -18 -- nice' prints `18'. Before it printed `8'. -* internationalized diagnostic messages -* `date -d "01/01/1998 3 years" +%Y' now works properly. It prints 2001. -* New programs: chroot, factor, seq, uptime. -* date accepts new option: --rfc-822 (-R) -* date accepts new format, %z, for RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) -* date: fix bugs in the handling of date -u +'%s %Z'. -* date accepts new option --reference=FILE (-r FILE) analogous to the - like-named touch option. -* date can now format dates up to and including ones in the year 2037 -User visible changes in release 1.12 -* None. -User visible changes in release 1.11 -* date accepts new option: (-f) --file=DATEFILE -* skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes) -* `stty werase ^W' works. Before, werase wasn't enabled for AIX-3.2.5. -* su with no arguments works properly -* nice accepts options like `--5' (this is interpreted like `-n -5') -* nice now interprets `-1 -1' like `-1' not like `-11' -* `stty speed' and `stty size' no longer output a spurious newline -User visible changes in release 1.10 -* change package name from shellutils to sh-utils -* add hostname, pwd, and users commands -* --version outputs the name of the utility as well as the package name - and version number. -* Configure properly determines options for stty on SCO ODT 3.0 systems. -* `date -d' works better. Before, `date -d '4apr94'' produced - `Sun Apr 3 23:00:00 CDT 1994'. -User visible changes in release 1.9.4 -* Repair stty option handling. -User visible changes in release 1.9.3 -* `stty -a -g' gets a diagnostic -* `stty {-a|-g} any-other-argument' gets a diagnostic -* stty no longer ignores some of its arguments -* basename and dirname no longer treat `--' specially -* `basename -- file.c .c' generates a usage error. Before, it output `file'. -* `basename file-dist -dist' outputs `file'. Before it output `file-dist'. -* stty defaults `swtch' to undefined for Solaris so `susp' (^Z) will work. - Before, with the default settings ^Z did nothing. -* stty no longer gives an error message when it finds a spurious difference - (due to buggy tcgetattr/tcsetattr) between requested and current tty - modes under SunOS 4.1.x. -* stty no longer fails if the ioctl to determine the display width fails - when displaying settings. -* stty works around SunOS 4.x kernel bug that made `stty rows 0 cols 0' fail. -* who and tee no longer fail gratuitously when continued after an - interrupted read or write system call. -* date accepts new format: %s time in seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UCT -* date -d can parse dates like `11-JUL-1991' -* expr '' == 0 works (before, it printed 1) -* stty no longer fails on telnet sessions to Solaris systems -* `cd /etc; who utmp' now works. Before, any filename argument had to be - absolute or relative to /dev. - -User visible changes in release 1.9.2: -* who output is better formatted on Solaris and other SysVr4 systems -* fix a minor problem in formatting the output from `stty -a' -* yes with arguments outputs newlines again -* partial stty failures are reported - -Major changes in release 1.9.1: -* stty can be built on Suns again -* minor fix for who -q - -Major changes in release 1.9: -* su fails gracefully when getpass is unable to open /dev/tty. -* printenv and tty detect and report write errors -* fix bug in stty -* stty accepts the new options status and flush on systems that provide them -* `expr 1 / 0' gives an error message rather than trying to divide by zero -* expr's `substr' doesn't overrun malloc'd buffer -* expr recognizes the string `0' as zero -* better support for Linux, Dec Alpha, and SGI Irix -* all programs (even true and false) accept --version and --help options -* uname's --version option is no longer equivalent to its -v option -* 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. -* make may be run from the subdirectories - -Major changes in release 1.8: -* add echo command -* fix some incorrect warnings in pathchk -* look at the right utmp file on 386BSD -* date doesn't dump core on some systems now - -Major changes in release 1.7: -* add su, who, true, false commands -* add more tests to expr -* fix printf program handling of \ escapes -* printf can re-use format string for multiple groups of arguments -* printf catches numeric conversion errors with an ANSI C library -* stty nl and -nl were backwards -* date can format an arbitrary date without setting it - -======================================================================== - -Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no -Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover -Texts. 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