From 6d920eca0c6cae9faf401333316cd3698883fbc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1993 19:04:12 +0000 Subject: merge with 1.8g --- old/textutils/NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'old/textutils/NEWS') diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS index 8141076c5..6530b19d9 100644 --- a/old/textutils/NEWS +++ b/old/textutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,21 @@ Major changes in release 1.9: * cat -v /dev/null works on more systems +* od's --compatible (-C) flag renamed to --backward-compatible (-B) +* --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. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2