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- User visible changes in release 1.9.3
- * `stty -a -g' gets a diagnostic
- * `stty {-a|-g} any-other-argument' gets a diagnostic
- * stty no longer ignores some of its arguments
- * basename and dirname no longer treat `--' specially
- * `basename -- file.c .c' generates a usage error. Before, it output `file'.
- * `basename file-dist -dist' outputs `file'. Before it output `file-dist'.
- * stty defaults `swtch' to undefined for Solaris so `susp' (^Z) will work.
- Before, with the default settings ^Z did nothing.
- * stty no longer gives an error message when it finds a spurious difference
- (due to buggy tcgetattr/tcsetattr) between requested and current tty
- modes under SunOS 4.1.x.
- * stty no longer fails if the ioctl to determine the display width fails
- when displaying settings.
- * stty works around SunOS 4.x kernel bug that made `stty rows 0 cols 0' fail.
- * who and tee no longer fail gratuitously when continued after an
- interrupted read or write system call.
- * date accepts new format: %s time in seconds since 00:00:00 1/1/1971
- * date -d can parse dates like `11-JUL-1991'
- * expr '' == 0 works (before, it printed 1)
- * stty no longer fails on telnet sessions to Solaris systems
- * `cd /etc; who utmp' now works. Before, any filename argument had to be
- absolute or relative to /dev.
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- User visible changes in release 1.9.2:
- * who output is better formatted on Solaris and other SysVr4 systems
- * fix a minor problem in formatting the output from `stty -a'
- * yes with arguments outputs newlines again
- * partial stty failures are reported
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- Major changes in release 1.9.1:
- * stty can be built on Suns again
- * minor fix for who -q
-
- Major changes in release 1.9:
- * su fails gracefully when getpass is unable to open /dev/tty.
- * printenv and tty detect and report write errors
- * fix bug in stty
- * stty accepts the new options status and flush on systems that provide them
- * `expr 1 / 0' gives an error message rather than trying to divide by zero
- * expr's `substr' doesn't overrun malloc'd buffer
- * expr recognizes the string `0' as zero
- * better support for Linux, Dec Alpha, and SGI Irix
- * all programs (even true and false) accept --version and --help options
- * uname's --version option is no longer equivalent to its -v option
- * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
- some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
- * work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
- ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
- and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
- * make may be run from the subdirectories
-
- Major changes in release 1.8:
- * add echo command
- * fix some incorrect warnings in pathchk
- * look at the right utmp file on 386BSD
- * date doesn't dump core on some systems now
-
- Major changes in release 1.7:
- * add su, who, true, false commands
- * add more tests to expr
- * fix printf program handling of \ escapes
- * printf can re-use format string for multiple groups of arguments
- * printf catches numeric conversion errors with an ANSI C library
- * stty nl and -nl were backwards
- * date can format an arbitrary date without setting it
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