many bug fixes and a few additions, mostly derived from bug-gnu-utils

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a2c8722ccaff676071265013de37bdfb59f13704..50dbe439d099a31d9e7e2b2dec33ce7d71635263 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ operates.
 `--quiet'
 `--silent'
 `-q'
-     Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.
+     Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.  To
+     suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
+     messages will still be shown).
 
 `--srcdir=DIR'
      Look for the package's source code in directory DIR.  Usually