Changes in release 1.13 [1.12r] * 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