coreutils/doc/ChangeLog

2002-07-24  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2002-07-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2002-07-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2002-05-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2002-04-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2002-04-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.

2002-04-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2001-11-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2001-10-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

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

2001-06-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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  <meyering@lucent.com>

	* 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.