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diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index 8474c0cfe..000000000 --- a/old/textutils/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,471 +0,0 @@ -Changes in release 2.1 -[2.0.22] -* `od -t f8' works once again [bug introduced in textutils-2.0.8] -* various portability fixes, and general clean-up -* various minor, corner-case bug fixes -[2.0.21] -* split accepts new option -a or --suffix-length. -* split no longer generates longer suffixes than requested; instead, it reports - an error when suffixes are exhausted. POSIX requires this behavior. -* The _POSIX2_VERSION environment variable lets you select which version - of POSIX the utilities should conform to. Its default value is system - 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 (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) - split -N (instead, use split -l N) - tail -N (instead, use tail -c N or tail -n N) - 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 (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 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, - unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in the environment. -* sort -m no longer segfaults when given an empty file -* sort -S now accepts 'K' as a synonym for 'k'. -* wc recognizes all locale-defined white-space characters, not just those - in the "C" locale. -[2.0.19] -* portability tweak to make lib/regex.c compile -* split translatable strings only in the middle of sentences -[2.0.18] -* sort could segfault on systems without a working mkstemp function and - with a gettimeofday function that clobbers the static buffer that - localtime uses for it's return value -- introduced in 2.0.17 -[2.0.17] -* csplit no longer gets a failed assertion for this: - printf 'a\n\n'|csplit - '/^$/' 2 -* sort detects physical memory attributes more portably -* tail no longer gets a segfault on Linux's /proc/ksyms -* sum -s produces the proper 16-bit checksum for large files - (this fixes a bug that was introduced in 2.0f) -* uniq is now about 3 times faster than the version from 2.0 on Linux systems; - the code uses lock-avoiding variants of common I/O functions -[2.0.16] -* tail -F no longer segfaults -[2.0.15] -* `head -c N' and `od -N N' now read no more than N bytes of input -* tail accepts new option: -F, equivalent to `--follow=name --retry', - for compatibility with the FreeBSD and NetBSD versions of tail. -* fmt no longer segfaults when using a maximum line width larger than 32767 -* uniq's --all-repeated option has new modes to delimit groups - of duplicate lines: --all-repeated={precede,separate,none(default)} -[2.0.14] -* sort now accepts long options like "--reverse" and "--". -* sort now checks option syntax as POSIX requires, except that (as usual - for GNU) options can follow file names unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. - For example, invalid positional combinations like "sort +1 -r -2" are - now rejected as per POSIX. -* The next POSIX standard will require that obsolescent 'sort' - positional options like +1 be treated as file names, not options. - Please use 'sort -k' instead. -[2.0.13] -* pr accepts new -D or --date option, to specify date format. -* The following changes are required by POSIX: - - If POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, dates in pr headers now look something like - 'Dec 4 23:59 2001', with the exact appearance affected by LC_TIME. - - pr -h now affects only the center header string, not the entire header. - - pr no longer truncates headers. -* Spacing in pr headers has been adjusted slightly. -* `fmt --prefix=S' now works when S contains a byte with the high bit set -[2.0.12] -* sort has improved performance when using very little main memory -* sort has improved memory management -* sort is no longer susceptible to certain denial of service attacks -* sort no longer suffers from a race condition whereby an interrupt received - during cleanup could cause it to fail to remove temporary files. - This problem could arise only on hosts without sigaction. -[2.0.11] -* sort accepts new -S SIZE option, to specify main-memory usage. -[2.0.10] -* od is faster and more portable than it was in 2.0.9 -* tail avoids an uninitialized memory reference -[2.0.9] -* od now prints valid addresses for offsets of 2^32 and larger, and allows - the byte offset (-j) and byte count (-N) arguments to be 2^32 and larger. -* tail now works with line and byte counts of 2^32 and larger, on systems - with large file support -* join now works with an 8-bit delimiter -* fix a compilation failure on some Solaris systems with wc.c -[2.0.8] -* od now supports 8-byte integers, assuming they're printable with e.g., %lld -* new program: sha1sum -* wc accepts new -m option: count (potentially multi-byte) characters -* wc's `--chars' option is now equivalent to -m, not --bytes as it used to be -* `cat -n' works properly when processing 2^31 or more lines -[2.0g] -* sort's --help output now warns that it is locale-aware -* tail: fix a buffer underrun error that occurred on an empty pipe, - also thanks to bounded pointers -* pr: fix a bounds violation found by Greg McGary's bounded-pointers-enabled gcc - It could have caused (with low probability) the columns on the last page of - output *not* to be `balanced' when they should have been. -* sort: if the -T tmpdir option is given multiple times, all the given - directories are used; this can improve performance for huge sort/merges. -[2.0f] -* all programs fail when printing --help or --version output to a full device -* cut no longer gets a segfault under some circumstances -* unexpand accepts new option: --first-only -[2.0e] -* `tail -f directory' no longer gets a failed assertion -* sort: big performance improvement when sorting many small files; - from Charles Randall -* configure and portability changes in m4/ and lib/ -[2.0d] -* preliminary sort performance improvements -* tsort now works more like the traditional UNIX tsort. Before it would - exit when it found a loop. Now it continues and outputs all items. -* unexpand no longer infloops on certain sequences of white space -* unified lib/: now that directory and most of the configuration framework - is common between fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils -[2.0c] -* include lib/nanosleep.h. -[2.0b] -* portability tweaks for error.c vs. systems with deficient strerror_r -[2.0a] -* `tail --follow=name' no longer gets a failed assertion for a - dev,inode-reusing race condition -* sort and comm no longer consider newlines to be part of the line, - as this requirement will likely be removed from POSIX.2. - This undoes some changes made for textutils 1.22m and 1.22n. -* tail's (short only) -f option no longer accepts an optional argument, - so e.g., `tail -fn 2 file' works again. -* tail no longer refuses to operate on certain types of files -* fixed bug in tsort's handling of cycles - -Changes in release 2.0 -[1.22q] -* HPUX portability fix: md5sum would dump core due to use of libc's getline -[1.22p] -* portability fixes from Paul Eggert based largely on tar-1.13 reports -* `tail --pid=PID' now works even when PID belongs to some other user -[1.22o] -* tail accepts new option: --pid=PID -[1.22n] -* tail accepts the following new options (some of which were added in 1.22g): - --retry - --follow[={name|descriptor}] - --max-unchanged-stats=N - --max-consecutive-size-changes=N - --sleep-interval=S -* wc uses the POSIX-mandated output format when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set -* To maintain compatibility with sort, comm and join now obey the LC_COLLATE - locale, and comm now considers newlines to be part of the lines. -* use lib/memchr.c only if it's not provided by the system -- this means - that on systems with a fast library memchr function you may notice an - improvement. If you use a system with a buggy or signifcantly slower - memchr, please report it. -[1.22m] -* sort now considers newlines to be part of the line, as required by POSIX.2. - E.g. a line starting with a tab now sorts before an empty line, - since tab precedes newline in the ASCII collating sequence. -* sort handles NUL bytes correctly when configured/compiled with --enable-nls -* fix typos in my version of AC_SEARCH_LIBS. -* fix dates on config files so builders don't need autoconf/automake -[1.22l] -* sort no longer autodetects the locale of numbers and months, - as that conflicts with POSIX.2 -* `join -tC' now works when input contains trailing spaces -* portability tweaks for Irix's cc -[1.22k] -* `sort -n' works with negative numbers when configured/compiled - with --enable-nls -* head accepts byte and line counts of type uintmax_t (so up to 2^64 - 1) -[1.22j] -* tail: fix bug introduced in 1.22i -[1.22i] -* tail now terminates in `yes > k & sleep 1; tail -2c k' -* `tail -f' now ensures that stdout is unbuffered -* fix a bug in cut to allow use of 8-bit delimiters -* pr accepts POSIX compliant options -s and -w, - the new capital letter options -J, -S and _W turn off the - unexpected interferences of the small letter options -s and -w - if used together with the column options. -* pr output has been adapted to other UNIXes in some cases. -[1.22h] -* portability tweaks -* Window/NT/DOS support -[1.22g] -* uniq accepts new option: --all-repeated (-D). -* Windows/DOS portability fixes -* new program: tsort -* tail has several new options -* md5sum can handle file names with embedded backslash characters -* pr accepts long option names (see `pr --help') -* new program: ptx (moved to this package from being its own distribution) -[1.22f] -* cut accepts new --output-delimiter=STR option -* `sort -o no-such-file no-such-file' now fails, as it should -* fix pr bug: pr -td didn't double space -* fix tac bug when using -b, -r, and -s SEPARATOR -* fix sort bug whereby using key-local `d' option would cause following - key specs to be ignored when any two keys (in the `d'-modified test) - compared equal. -[1.22e] -* remove maintainer mode -[1.22d] -* wc accepts new option: --max-line-length (-L) -* sort can sort according to your locale if your C library supports that -[1.22c] -[1.22b] -* od supports a new trailing `z' character in a type specification: - $ od -tx1z . - 0000000 be ef c6 0f fd f9 d7 e0 ec cb f3 c6 00 db e8 00 >................< - 0000020 00 00 d2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< - 0000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< - * - 0000600 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 35 cc >..............5.< - 0000620 05 63 76 74 2e 6f 00 00 29 ac 08 70 72 6f 6a 65 >.cvt.o..)..proje< - 0000640 63 74 73 00 00 00 18 9a 05 63 76 74 2e 63 00 00 >cts......cvt.c..< - 0000660 18 d9 03 52 43 53 00 00 18 c0 05 78 2e 64 61 74 >...RCS.....x.dat< - -[1.22a] -* sort -c reports both the number and the contents of the first out-of-order - line, in addition to the file name. -* `head -c 4096m' is no longer treated just like `head -c 0' - now it gets a diagnostic about 4096m being too large. -* pr: For compatibility (also more POSIX compliant): Include default - separator `TAB' when merging lines of full length. -* When POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set, tail -N now accepts more than one file - argument, to be consistent with the way head -N works. If POSIXLY_CORRECT - is set, using two or more file arguments with the obsolescent form (-N) - evokes an error. To avoid the warning or failure, use the POSIX -n N option - or the GNU --lines=N option. - -Changes in release 1.22 -[1.21a] -* Fix a bug in tail when invoked with an argument like `+NUMBERc' -* Add test suite for tail - -Changes in release 1.21 -* Using --program-prefix no longer applies the prefix twice - -Changes in release 1.20 -* fix pr: -l now uses total number of lines per page also with -f -* fix pr: use left-hand-side truncation of header string to avoid line - overflow -* fix pr: it now accepts `form feeds set in input files', also with -m - and multiple form feeds at different pages in each file -* pr now accepts: -h "", print a blank line header -* pr: when skipping pages (+FIRST_PAGE option) line counting (-n option) - starts with 1st line of input file (not of 1st page printed) by default -* pr accepts new option: -N, start printing with an optional line number -* pr -t retains `form feeds set in input files' (`don't destroy page layout') -* pr accepts new option: -T, equivalent to -t, but eliminate also form feeds - (`clear file') -* pr accepts the extension: +FIRST_PAGE[:LAST_PAGE] -* pr -w and -s option disentangled (`use a separator' no longer destroys - column alignment) -* pr accepts new option: -j, merge lines of full length -* pr accepts the extension: -s[STRING], use separator string instead of - character only -* pr -b is no longer an independent option, balancing is always used - with -COLUMN (a requirement of unrestricted use of form feeds) -* pr accepts new option: --test, to run the pr tests with a constant - header string -* join passes all of its tests on Alpha OSF 4.0. -* sort no longer improperly ignores blanks in determining starting and ending - positions for keys with explicit character offsets -* fix bug in csplit with regexp and negative offset that led to infinite loop - Changes in test release 1.19q -* fix bug in sort -c that sometimes resulted in a segfault - Changes in test release 1.19p -* md5sum's --string option is being deprecated and is no longer documented. - It is still accepted, but will be removed altogether in 1.22. -* tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' no longer fails when LC_CTYPE is set to - iso_8859_1 on Solaris -- or any other character set with differing - numbers of uppercase and lowercase characters -* split and tail diagnose unrecognized multiplier suffixes, in e.g., - `split --bytes=1M' (should be `-b 1m' or `--bytes=1m') -* fix bug in md5sum's handling of partial reads -* fix bug in treatment by sort -f of bytes with high-bit set -* update configuration system to use automake's aclocal program -* configure performs sanity check on CC and CFLAGS to avoid a misleading - failure that suggested cross-compiling was the cause -* distribute test suites for cut, join, sort, and tr -* unexpand no longer gets in endless loop -* when verifying checksums, md5sum uses the binary mode flag from the - input stream rather than the one from the command line - -Changes in release 1.19 -* md5sum can verify digests of files with names containing newline characters -* update from gettext-0.10.20. - -Changes in release 1.18 -* when building sort, link with -lm on systems that use the replacement strtod -* update from gettext-0.10.17. - -Changes in release 1.17 -* include texinfo.tex in the distribution - -Changes in release 1.16 -* sort is compatible with Unix sort when a key-end spec refers to the N'th - character in a field that has fewer than N characters -* tail with old-style options like -20k and +31m operates on units of bytes, - as the --help usage message says. Before, it used units of lines. - -Changes in release 1.15 -* od gives better diagnostics for invalid format specs -* uses automake-generated Makefile templates -* configure takes a new option: --enable-maintainer-mode -* fix a bug in fmt when prefix has trailing white space -* internationalized diagnostic messages -* fix a couple bugs in tr involving use of -c and/or -d flags -- see ChangeLog -* diagnose some improper or questionable invocations of csplit -* properly handle `echo |csplit - 1 1', rather than aborting -* fix join: without -t it now ignores leading blanks -* sort accepts new option: -z for NUL terminated records -* join accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i -* uniq accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i - -User-visible changes in release 1.14 -* sort -i and sort -d properly order strings containing ignored characters -* nl: rename misleading --first-page=N option to --starting-line-number=N. -* sort diagnoses invalid arguments to -k, then fails -* sort -n properly orders invalid integers with respect to valid integers -* sorting works with character offsets larger than corresponding field width -* sort's -b option and `b' modifier work -* sort -k2,2 works. -* csplit detects integer overflow when converting command line arguments -* sort accepts new option/flag, -g, for sorting numbers in scientific notation -* join accepts POSIX `-o 0' field specifier. -* tr 'a[b*512]' '[a*]' < /dev/null terminates -* tr '[:*3][:digit:]' 'a-m' and tr 'a[=*2][=c=]' 'xyyz' no longer fail -* special characters in tr's string1 and string2 may be escaped with backslash - -User-visible changes in release 1.13 -* md5sum: with --check, distinguish between open/read failure and bad checksum -* md5sum: remove -h, -s, -v short options -* md5sum: rename --verbose to --warn, --quiet to --status -* md5sum --check fails if it finds no properly formatted checksum lines -* sort -c prints `disorder on...' message on standard error, not stdout -* sort -k works as described in the texinfo documentation -* tail works on NetBSD -* md5sum reads and writes (de facto) standard Plumb/Lankester format -* sort accepts -.1 +.2 options for compatibility -* od works properly when dump limit is specified and is a multiple of - bytes_per_block (set by --width, 16 by default). - -User-visible changes in release 1.12 -* sort no longer reports spurious errors on Ultrix systems -* new program: md5sum -* all --help messages have been improved -* join's -a1 and -a2 options work -* tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' no longer reads uninitialized memory -* sort properly handles command line arguments like `+7.2n' -* fmt properly formats paragraphs not terminated by a newline -* tail -f flushes stdout before sleeping so that it will output partial - lines sooner -* sort properly orders fields where one field is a proper prefix of the other -* sort properly interprets field offsets specified via the -k option -* dd, od, and tail work on systems for which off_t is long long (e.g. BSD4.4) -* wc is faster when not counting words -* wc now works even when file pointer isn't at beginning of file -* expand no longer seg faults with very long tab lists - -User-visible changes in release 1.11 -* fmt is built - -User-visible changes in release 1.10 -* skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes) -* new program: fmt -* tail -f on multiple files reports file truncation -* tail -q has been fixed so it never prints headers -* wc -c is much faster when operating on non-regular files -* unexpand gives a diagnostic (rather than a segfault) when given a name of - a nonexistent file. -* cat, csplit, head, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, and wc no longer fail - gratuitously when continued after a suspended read or write system call. -* cut interprets -d '' to mean `use the NUL byte as the delimiter' rather - than reporting that no delimiter was specified and failing. -* `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3,4' prints `c:'. Before it printed just `c'. -* cut has been rewritten, is markedly faster for large inputs, and passes a - fairly large test suite. -* sort properly handles the argument to the -T option. - -Major changes in release 1.9.1: -* cut no longer ignores the last line of input when that line lacks a - trailing newline character - -Major changes in release 1.9: -* `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3-' prints `c:' and - `echo a:b | cut -d: -f1' prints `a'. -* the command `printf '\t\n' |fold -w n' now terminates. - Before, it wouldn't stop for n less than 8. -* sort accepts and ignores -y[string] options for compatibilty with Solaris. -* cat -v /dev/null works on more systems -* od's --compatible (-C) flag renamed to --traditional (no short option) -* --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. - -Major changes in release 1.7: -* none -Major changes in release 1.6: -* with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately -* pr -2a really terminates -* pr -n produces multi-column output - -Major changes in release 1.5: -* sort is 8-bit clean -* sort's -n and -M options no longer imply -b -* several bugs in sort have been fixed -* all programs accept --help and --version options -* od --compatible accepts pre-POSIX arguments -* pr -2a terminates - -Major changes in release 1.4: -* add od and cksum programs -* move cmp to GNU diff distribution -* tail -f works for multiple files -* pr prints the file name in error messages -* fix some off by 1 errors in pr and fold -* optimize wc -c on regular files -* sort handles `-' argument correctly -* sort supports -T option -* tr ranges like a-a work -* tr x '' fails gracefully -* default sum output format is BSD compatible -* paste -d '' works - -======================================================================== - -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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