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2006-12-21  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Improve the documentation
        for bs, ibs, obs, and cbs.  Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
        Patch by Olivier Delhomme.

2006-12-14  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi: Remove two doubled words.
        (Treating / specially): With --preserve-root, chgrp and chown
        will not modify "/", even through a symlink.

2006-11-28  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Fix typo: s/setgid/setuid/.
        Reported by Georg Neis as Debian bug 400778.

2006-10-27  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which
        the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length".
        Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre.

2006-10-23  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Describe --one-file-system.

2006-09-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (groups invocation): "groups" no longer prefixes
        the output with "user :" unless more than one user is specified.

2006-09-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that -i and -f are
        independent.  Clarify -i's behavior.
        (Disk usage): Clarify intro.  Problem reported by Van Ly.

2006-09-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Ignore -f when standard input
        is a FIFO, too.

2006-09-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Treating / specially): --preserve-root is
        now the default for rm.
        (rm invocation): Likewise.  Also, document that you can't
        remove `.' or `..'.  Use the POSIX term "root directory"
        rather than the more-ambiguous "file system root".

2006-08-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * .cvsignore: Add Makefile.in, coreutils.html, coreutils.pdf,
        coreutils.ps, coreutils.tps.  Remove coreutils.cm (dunno what it
        is, but the makefile doesn't mention it).  Remove coreutils.info
        as it is subsumed by coreutils.info*.

2006-08-22  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * .cvsignore: Add files that are now generated by ../bootstrap.

2006-08-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * Makefile.in, fdl.texi, getdate.texi:
        Remove from CVS, since ../bootstrap generates them automatically.

2006-08-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Reflect doclicense.texi->fdl.texi renaming.

2006-08-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * ChangeLog: Add copyright notice.
        * Makefile.am: Likewise.
        * getdate.texi: Likewise.
        * perm.texi: Likewise.
        * getdate.texi: Update to version 1.2 of the GNU FDL.
        * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
        (Copying This Manual): Renamed from GNU Free Documentation License.
        Now an appendix.  Include fdl.texi rather than doclicense.texi.
        * fdl.tex: Renamed from doclicense.texi.  Latest version from FSF.
        * perm.texi: Add copyright notice.

2006-08-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (df invocation): df exits nonzero if it outputs
        nothing.

2006-08-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn about oflag=append without
        conv=notrunc.  See Debian bug 373736.

2006-08-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (shuf invocation, Random sources): New sections.
        (Operating on sorted files): Add shuf.
        (sort invocation, shred invocation): New option --random-source.
        (sort invocation): Fix typo: -R -> -r.

2006-07-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (install invocation, mkdir invocation):
        Add cross-references to Directory Setuid and Setgid.
        (install-invocation): The default mode is no longer equivalent to 755.
        * perm.texi (Changing Special Mode Bits): Clarify u+s versus
        a+s versus +s, and likewise for g+s.
        (Numeric Modes): Bring back example of 0055 == 55.  4755 no
        longer clears setgid bit on directories.
        (Directory Setuid and Setgid): Numeric modes now affect setuid
        and setgid on directories only if they set these bits.  This
        is so that leading 0 has no effect on numeric modes.

2006-07-26  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Mention that missing
        pieces of information are marked with "?".  From Paul Eggert.

2006-07-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * perm.texi (Directory Setuid and Setgid): Explain that this is a
        GNU extension, and that other systems behave differently here.

2006-07-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Clarify that the
        restricted deletion flag is another name for the sticky bit.
        * perm.texi (Mode Structure): The restricted deletion flag
        restricts only unprivileged users.
        (Mode Structure, Symbolic Modes, Numeric Modes): Be more careful
        about distinguishing file mode bits from permissions bits,
        and about execute versus search permission.  The FreeBSD command
        is chflags, not chrflags.

2006-07-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi: Change GNU to @acronym{GNU} in a few places.
        Use "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" a bit more consistently.
        Use "appropriate privileges" rather than "super-user" a bit
        more consistently.
        (install invocation): Parent directories are now 755 without uid
        or gid changing.  The default mode is now 0755, not 755.
        (mkdir invocation): Rewrite the top-level usage description, since
        I couldn't easily follow the old one.  It's now 3 lines not 8.
        For -m, describe file permission bits versus other bits, and note
        that mkdir is atomic if you don't mention special bits.
        (chmod invocation): Mention what chmod does to setgid and setuid bits.
        * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Modernize the explanation of the
        setuid and setgid bits on directories.
        (Changing Special Mode Bits): Mention that a implies both u and g
        for s.  Cross reference to new node.
        (Numeric Modes): Don't claim that 0055 is the same as 55; this isn't
        true any more.  Mention new node.
        4755 is now like u=rwxs,go=rx,g-s, not like u=rwxs,go=rx.
        (Directory Setuid and Setgid): New node.

2006-07-08  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (Squeezing): Separate doubled "the", so typo-checkers
        don't complain.

        * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Enforce the zeros vs. zeroes consistency.

2006-07-08  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

        * coreutils.texi: Fix some typos.  Use `zeros' consistently (both
        `zeros' and `zeroes' are correct).

2006-07-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): With no operand, 'tail -f' now
        silently ignores the '-f' only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe
        and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.

2006-06-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): seq now uses long double
        internally rather than double.  It now defaults to a minimal fixed
        point format if possible.  It lets you use %a, %A, %E, %F, %G.
        Don't assume printf doesn't work for numbers that fit in 64 but
        not 32 bits; typically they work these days.  Improve discussion
        of large integers and update the rounding-error numbers.

2006-06-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): 'sort +1 -2' is now supported
        even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure
        extension to POSIX.

2006-06-27  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Remove ./ prefix from example.
        From Padraig Brady.

2006-06-26  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Spell out `--files0-from' in
        the example. Suggestion from Bob Proulx.

        * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Document new --files0-from option.

2006-06-20  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

        * coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document that accepting
        multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions.
        Reported by Dan Jacobson.

2006-06-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use $(_W) and $(W_) instead of
        assuming grep -w (which is not portable).

2006-05-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

        * Makefile.am: Use `AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS' rather than
        overwriting `MAKEINFO', so that `missing' can do its job.

        * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use `$(EGREP)' instead of `grep -E'.
        (check-texinfo): Use literal `{' only in brackets, i.e., [{] or [}],
        to avoid triggering an error from Solaris 2.6's grep.

2006-05-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since
        it's going away.

2006-05-04  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

        * coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds.

2006-05-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (head invocation, tail invocation, sort invocation):
        Give advice about porting to hosts that support only obsolete syntax.
        Problem reported by Zack Weinberg.

2006-04-23  Francesco Montorsi  <fr_m@hotmail.com>

        * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Describe new option:
        --group-directories-first.

2006-04-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Add P for Solaris
        10 ports.  Add commented-out entries for other types that POSIX
        says are possible, or that I observed in FreeBSD documentation.

2006-04-18  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (Input processing in ptx): Remove mention of the
        default --ignore file, /usr/local/lib/eign.  That file has never
        been used.  Reported by Eric Blake.

2006-04-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): expr exit status is 3 only for
        internal errors now; 2 is also for invalid values in expressions.

        (What information is listed): Document 'ls' type letters.
        Problem reported by Lincoln Martin.

2006-04-09  Ori Avtalion  <oavtal@bezeqint.net>

        * coreutils.texi (Top): Add 'hostid' to System context menu line.
        (trivial change)

2006-03-22  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

        * coreutils.texi (General options in ptx): Undocument --copyright.

2006-03-27  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

        * coreutils.texi (dirname invocation): Macro in previous patch
        was too broad.

2006-03-11  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

        * coreutils.texi (basename invocation, dirname invocation):
        Improve documentation to match recent // patches.

2006-03-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): nohup now redirects stderr to
        nohup.out if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty.

2006-03-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags directory, nolinks.
        Alphabetize nofollow.

2006-02-17  Simon Josefsson  <jas@extundo.com>

        * coreutils.texi: Add base64 section.

2006-02-20  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

        * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Fix typo in last patch.
        (paste invocation): Fix whitespace.

2006-02-18  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

        * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Document new -I option, and new
        --interactive behavior.

2006-02-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
        backslash-escape causes an error message -- it doesn't.
        Mention that `\' also removes any special significance, so
        is useful for [, ], *, -.  Prompted by Richard Neill in
        http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=14937

2006-02-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high
        order bit.

2006-01-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the
        count is optional, so put square brackets around it.

2006-01-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Invalid dates are rejected.
        (Time of day items): Mention the possibility of leap seconds.
        Problem reported by Dr. David Alan Gilbert.

        * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym around "ISO" uniformly.
        (Date conversion specifiers): Explain %g, %G, and %V a bit better.

2006-01-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Say that --retry
        is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.

2006-01-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
        file permission bits.
        * coreutils.texi (mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): -m
        affects only file permission bits.

2005-12-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify that a blank is a space
        or a tab.

2005-12-15  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.
        [--format]: Add example.  Distinguish from --printf.
        Sort option descriptions.

2005-12-05  Andreas Gruenbacher  <agruen@suse.de>

        * coreutils.texi (ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.
        (cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.

2005-12-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of
        --random-sort, and use a simpler example.

2005-12-10  Frederik Eaton  <frederik@ofb.net>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed.

2005-12-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New noatime flag.

2005-11-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (df invocation): Document treatment of dummy file
        systems better.

2005-11-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for
        successful links.
        (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
        option and at most one file.

2005-11-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Capitalize two sentences in an
        enumerated list and fix a typo.  From Aaron Hawley.

2005-11-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults to
        --time-style='locale', which in turn acts like
        --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.

2005-11-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Don't mention --directory (-d).

2005-11-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
        like "tail -2" more precisely.
        (touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.

2005-08-28  David Madore  <david.madore@ens.fr>

        * coreutils.texi: Document SHA-1 and SHA-2 utilities.

2005-10-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * doc/coreutils.texi (Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):
        (vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.

2005-10-15  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document du's -m option,
        now that we've decided to keep it.
        (who invocation): Remove documentation for deprecated --idle (-i).

2005-10-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi: Avoid a few overfull/underfull hboxes.

2005-09-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
        "touch -" now touches standard output.

2005-09-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.

2005-09-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): uname -a no longer generates
        the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.

2005-09-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):
        Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z.  Use
        "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time
        and date".  Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
        it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
        Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
        (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
        -i and -p.

2005-09-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document "niceness" versus
        "nice value" versus "scheduling priority".

2005-09-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Use "niceness", not "nice value"
        to talk about nice values offset by -20.  Don't use the word
        "priority" when niceness is intended.

2005-08-15  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Itemize the defaults.
        From Karl Berry.

2005-08-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove square
        brackets in --reply=[HOW].  Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.

2005-07-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple
        FILE inputs.

2005-07-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (false invocation):
        Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits
        with status >1 on some hosts.
        (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.

2005-07-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longer
        affects nohup's behavior.  Input is redirected from /dev/null.

2005-07-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary option
        (available on MS-DOS-like platforms only).  Explain when text and
        binary mode are used now.
        (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it
        causes "*" to be output.  Explain when text and binary mode are
        used now.

2005-07-03  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.
        (mv invocation): Likewise.

2005-06-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.

2005-06-14  William Brendling  <wbrendling@gmail.com>

        * coreutils.texi (du invocation): New options --last-time and
        --time-style.

2005-06-19  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.
        * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Also catch uses of path, pathname.

2005-06-17  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred
        works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode.
        Patch from Mark Melahn.

2005-06-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).

2005-06-07  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.

2005-06-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
        or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
        * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
        "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.

2005-05-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
        date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
        Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.

2005-05-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".

2005-05-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
        behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.

2005-05-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
        renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
        --directory.

2005-04-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
        (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
        These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
        deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
        (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
        (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
        (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
        Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
        (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
        a string of the other letters.  Add spaces around examples.
        Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
        Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
        Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
        (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
        nowadays.

2005-04-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
        since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
        (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
        (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
        (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
        1003.1-2001.
        (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
        (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
        (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
        (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
        (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
        (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
        (uniq invocation): Likewise.
        (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
        (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
        (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].

2005-04-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
        the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
        (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
        The umask does not affect the point of departure.
        Problem reported by Mike Stone.

2005-04-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
        than "uid" or "UID" or "user id".  Similarly for "group ID".

2005-04-09  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
        listed directories too, not just their contents.

2005-04-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
        INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.

2005-04-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
        (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
        Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
        to the usage messages.
        (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
        for consistency.

2005-03-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.

2005-03-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.

2005-03-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
        may be treated as errors.

2005-03-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
        clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
        Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
        with POSIX.  All uses changed.
        Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
        (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
        Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
        Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
        Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
        Say why %F is preferred for dates.
        (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
        Likewise for other changes.
        (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
        Document #.  Give an example for %9B.

2005-02-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
        (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
        For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
        For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
        For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
        For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
        For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
        For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used.  These options
        are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
        (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
        For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
        For %e, use blank in example.
        For %h, use @code for %b.
        For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
        (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
        Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
        Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
        Mention field widths an modifiers.
        (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.

2005-01-07  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
        of zero digits is interpreted as 0.  Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.

2005-01-04  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
        with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
        file system data.  Also mention BFS and NTFS.

2004-12-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
        "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
        (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval.  Problem reported
        by Stephane Chazelas.

2004-12-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
        in the -o option need to be quoted.  Problem reported by Phil Clayton.

2004-12-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
        Problem reported by Tim Waugh.

2004-12-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.

2004-12-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
        Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.

2004-12-04  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.

2004-10-01  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>

        * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
        adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.

2004-11-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
        than :|.  Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
        Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
        Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
        Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".

2004-11-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
        (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
        (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
        chars are still printed as '?' some times.
        (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
        on non-directories.
        (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
        The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.

        * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
        Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.

2004-11-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.

2004-11-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
        seconds, and bytes per second.

2004-11-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
        (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
        portable).

2004-10-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
        (Top): Update menu.
        (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
        stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
        Mention TZ.
        * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.

2004-10-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
        than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
        consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
        yet have clear consensus on "head -10".  See today's revision to
        the SUS FAQ
        <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.

2004-10-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.

2004-10-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
        OS limits, not file system limits.  Component length checks
        apply to all components, not merely to existing ones.  Say
        that nonexistent names are not errors.  For -p, omit all
        checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
        checks.  Explain what the portable file name character set is.

2004-10-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
        well as Unicode.  Various minor formatting cleanups.

2004-10-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
        index entries to proper paragraph.

2004-10-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
        the list of words to avoid.

2004-10-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
        (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
        with POSIX terminology.
        (test invocation, pwd invocation):
        Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
        built-in commands.
        (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
        Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
        (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
        spellings, or duplicates.

2004-09-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".

2004-09-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".

2004-09-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
        the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m).  Warn
        about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
        older systems.

2004-09-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
        is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
        so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
        Problem reported by Munzir Taha.

2004-09-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
        (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file).  Move miscellaneous
        stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.

2004-09-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
        comparison, too.  Revamp its description.
        (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.

2004-09-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
        options.
        (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
        expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
        nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
        This program doesn't reorder options.
        (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
        (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
        (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
        and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
        Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
        (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
        versus sort | uniq.  Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.

2004-09-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
        and FreeBSD compatibility.  Add support for XSI syntax
        (POSIX 1003.1-2004).  Rename -s[N] to -S N.  Remove documentation
        for -h.  -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).

2004-09-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
        quoting strings for the shell.

2004-09-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
        are mutually exclusive.  Give a bit more detail about ascii,
        ebcdic, and ibm conversions.

2004-08-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
        * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
        rather than "tabstop".
        (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
        POSIX requires "blank".  Define "blank".  Initial blanks are
        converted even if there's just one.  For -a, convert two or
        more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.

2004-08-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
        group must always be preceded by separator.
        "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
        Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
        set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
        denote mandatory locking.  Change "find"-oriented examples to use
        chown -h.

2004-08-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
        supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.

2004-08-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
        * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
        stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
        option-argument.
        (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
        not to "shred ./-".
        (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.

2004-07-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
        how it affects the scheduling priority.  (The old documentation
        implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
        isn't accurate.)  Document that the range of nice values might
        exceed -20..19.  Specify what happens when you give a nice value
        that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
        the nice value.  Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
        "most shells" have one.

2004-04-03  Dmitry V. Levin  <ldv@altlinux.org>

        * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
        "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.

2004-07-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
        Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
        Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
        Fail upon use of @url.  Use @uref instead.

2004-07-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
        install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
        short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
        --no-target-directory.  Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
        the language is similar for all.

2004-06-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
        Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
        Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
        previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
        and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
        In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
        interpretation of operands as options.
        Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
        Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
        Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
        Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
        since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
        Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
        where appropriate.
        (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
        (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
        for clarity.
        (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
        file names containing some special characters other than newline.
        (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
        Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
        (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
        Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
        (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
        in examples.
        (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
        indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
        extension).
        (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
        style for the date.
        (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
        isn't allowed.
        (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
        fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range.  Prefer separating
        options from their operands.
        (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
        Robbins's article, and give a date.  Don't imply that the
        current documentation is unchanged from his article.
        (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
        assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
        locale by default.  While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
        Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq.  Remove some
        unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands.  "Software
        Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
        Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.

2004-06-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
        than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.

2004-06-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
        invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
        Likewise.
        (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
        that we have --no-target-directory.
        (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
        --no-dereference.
        (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
        link invocation.

2004-06-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
        --target-directory in synopsis, too.

2004-06-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
        (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
        work unconditionally.

2004-06-07  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.

2004-06-06  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
        how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.

2004-06-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
        does with byte/character ranges.

2004-06-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.

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

        * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.

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.


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