path: root/doc/ChangeLog

2004-05-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
	* coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.

2004-05-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

	* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
	might write F before reading all the input.

2004-05-09  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.

2004-04-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
	that the options are in alphabetical order.  Describe how -b works
	more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too.  Mention
	what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
	a line end.  Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
	Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
	Log Format dates.  Remove a duplicate example.
	(Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
	than agglomerating them.

2004-03-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
	file system time stamp resolution into account.

	* coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
	(cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.

2004-04-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

	* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.

2004-04-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
	and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.

	* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.

2004-04-07  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.

2004-04-04  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.

2004-02-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.

2004-03-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
	consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.

2004-03-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
	(du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.

2004-03-23  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
	--total (-c), not with --summarize.

2004-03-22  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
	`overfull hbox' warnings.

2004-03-03  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.

2004-02-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
	Describe use of fractional seconds.
	(date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
	* getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
	* coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
	(Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.

	* getdate.texi: Add copyright notice.  Change getdate to
	get_date when talking about the function name.
	(Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
	info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
	info about the @ syntax.  Mention negative time stamps,
	fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
	(General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
	features.
	(General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
	Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
	(Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
	Describe fractional-second syntax.

2004-03-15  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
	in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry.  From Bob Proulx.

	* coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
	The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.

2004-03-10  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
	ls's --sort=directory option.  ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
	Reported by Arvind Autar.

	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
	cp's --sparse=WHEN option.

	* coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
	regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
	Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.

2004-02-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
	back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
	1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.

2004-02-22  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
	currently evokes a warning.

2004-02-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
	Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
	consistently instead of "number".  Warn about operands
	that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
	problem.

2004-02-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
	in description of `N' pattern.  From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

2004-02-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
	--date=DATE option; don't say otherwise.  Patch from Padraig Brady.

2004-02-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
	Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
	Suggestions by Bruno Haible.

2004-02-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
	Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
	(factor invocation): Add an example.
	Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.

2004-01-27  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
	Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
	Clarify first paragraph.  @w{}-protect an expression.1
	Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.

2004-01-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
	might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
	Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
	status patterns.  Don't bother to mention true and false
	since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
	(sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
	status pattern.
	(chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
	Remove duplicate description of status 127.
	(env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
	of status 1.
	(nice invocation): Likewise.

2003-12-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
	both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.

2004-01-15  Alfred M. Szmidt  <ams@kemisten.nu>

	Factor out some common options.
	* coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
	(What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
	(install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
	(df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.

2004-01-09  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	Document the exit status of each and every program.
	* coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
	makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
	(chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
	(nice invocation): Likewise.
	(Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
	Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.

2004-01-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
	mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).

2003-12-20  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.

2003-12-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
	Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
	output columns.
	(The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
	'ls -l'.  The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
	the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.

2003-11-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
	POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
	consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).

	* coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
	sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.

2003-11-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
	New sections.
	(rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
	Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.

2003-11-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
	describing -H, -L, -P options.  Use it here.
	(chgrp invocation): And here.

2003-11-09  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.

2003-10-15  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
	probably won't work even for superuser.  Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.

2003-09-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
	The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
	for signless offets.

2003-10-03  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.

2003-09-28  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
	From A Costa.

2003-09-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
	"whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
	-t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.

2003-08-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
	Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
	(who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.

2003-08-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (split invocation):
	Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.

2003-07-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
	* coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
	it's now %d not %_d.  Add URLs.

2003-07-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
	fuzz in relative units.

2003-07-29  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
	that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13.  Reported by Paul Worrall.

2003-07-28  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
	makes dd give a progress report to stderr.

2003-07-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.

2003-07-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
	`@heading'.

2003-07-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
	expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
	This change is for conformance to POSIX.

2003-07-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
	terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.

2003-07-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
	now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
	From Bob Proulx.
	(nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
	Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.

2003-07-10  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
	`tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
	(chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.

2003-06-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
	to the related examples.
	(Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
	Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.

2003-06-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
	the order `newline, word, byte'.  Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
	Also change `lines' to `newlines'.

2003-05-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.

2003-05-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
	Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
	duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
	consistent with POSIX.
	(uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
	output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
	Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.

2003-05-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
	make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
	Suggestion from Paul Eggert.

2003-05-10  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
	It uses standard exit codes.
	(More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
	`ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE.  Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.

2003-04-21  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
	<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
	* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
	\0NNN in the %b operand.

2003-04-10  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
	I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.

	* coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.

2003-04-04  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
	now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
	(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.

2003-04-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
	unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.

	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
	Reported by Nelson Beebe.

2003-03-27  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
	From Paul Eggert.
	(sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.

2003-03-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
	is now the default for non-regular files.

2003-03-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
	Suggestion from Michael Stone.

2003-02-21  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
	Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
	(stat invocation): Describe %B.

2003-02-07  Richard Dawe  <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>

	* coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.

	* perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
	permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
	override actual file permissions.  Use @command instead
	of @code for program names.

2003-02-06  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
	on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line.  From Karl Berry.

2003-02-05  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
	direntry lines.

	* coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
	Put unlink in its proper place.  Adjust wording in some
	dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
	Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
	Mostly from Karl Berry.

2003-01-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
	--output-delimiter=STR.

2003-01-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
	with an output delimiter.  From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

	* coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
	(Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.

	* coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
	From Karl Berry.

2003-01-19  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
	--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.

2003-01-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
	compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
	and somewhat contradictory.

	* coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
	formatting): Undo last change.

2003-01-15  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
	s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
	Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
	specified on the command line.

2002-08-27  Dmitry V. Levin  <ldv@altlinux.org>

	* coreutils.texi: Document readlink.

2002-12-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
	numbers are interpreted.  Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.

2002-11-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
	Reported by Thomas Goerlich.

2002-11-09  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
	Correct parts of --dired description.  Reported by Andre Spiegel.
	Include a lot more description, with examples.

2002-11-06  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
	change \0x prefix to \x.
	Change \xhhh to \xhh.

2002-10-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
	thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.

	* coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
	This affects display format as well as block size.
	Fractional block counts are rounded up.
	ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
	A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
	A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
	(tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
	(What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
	ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
	ls --block-size=si.  Displayed file size is now always affected by
	--block-size.

2002-09-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
	NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
	(stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
	(Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].

2002-08-30  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
	Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/.  From Michail Litvak.

2002-08-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.

2002-07-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
	POSIX 1003.1-2001:
	  - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
	  - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
	  - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
	    127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.

2002-07-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
	%g, %G, and %V

2002-07-22  Martin Michlmayr  <tbm@cyrius.com>

	* coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
	that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
	Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.

2002-07-10  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
	From Martin Michlmayr.

2002-07-08  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
	Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
	From Paul Eggert.
	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.

2002-07-06  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.

2002-07-03  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
	to --dereference/-L.  Rewrite description of --dereference.

2002-06-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
	since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.

2002-06-21  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section.  From Michael Meskes.

2002-05-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.

2002-06-03  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
	output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.

2002-05-27  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
	@acronym{POSIX}.

2002-05-26  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
	* getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.

2002-04-28  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.

2002-04-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
	Document POSIX signals better.

2002-04-15  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Document kill.
	Written by Marcus Brinkmann.

2002-04-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.

2002-04-08  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
	thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.

2002-02-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
	behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
	using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.

2002-03-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
	written in the same order that it is read, and is written
	exactly once.

2002-03-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R.  Add a new cp option --copy-contents
	for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
	cp -r behavior.

	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
	Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
	equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
	symlink options.  Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
	links unless you also specify -P.

2002-03-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
	preserves symlinks.  Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.

2002-02-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
	This documents the recent change to 'ls'.

2002-02-28  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
	in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.

2002-02-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
	time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.

2002-02-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
	-n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.

2002-02-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
	From Ian Lance Taylor.
	(tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.

2002-02-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
	(Standards Conformance): New section.

2002-01-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
	and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.

2002-02-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
	support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
	* coreutils.texi: Document this.  (Also, document a similar
	change to "touch", for fileutils).

2002-01-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.

2001-11-10  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.

2001-11-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
	Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.

2001-11-05  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
	not LC_COLLATE=C.  Explain how the latter can cause problems.
	Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
	(ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.

2001-10-21  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...

2001-10-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
	no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
	`cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
	cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
	Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
	Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.

2001-09-23  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
	/dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.

2001-09-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
	--reply={yes,no,query}.  Fix a few typos.

2001-09-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
	be sorted.  Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.

2001-09-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
	From Herbert Xu.

2001-09-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
	extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
	the input contains no unpairable lines.

2001-09-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi:
	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.

2001-08-24  Herbert Xu  <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

	* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
	with no separators.

2001-06-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
	as per POSIX.

2001-08-25  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.

2001-06-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
	to quote tokens.

2001-07-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
	cp (via copy.c).

2001-06-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
	* coreutils.texi: Likewise.

	* coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
	* omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.

	* omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
	Reported by Keith Thompson.

2001-05-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* texinfo.tex: Update from master source.

	* omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
	does when given no arguments.

2001-05-21  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* textutils.texi: Remove file.

	* Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
	(DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.

	This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.