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+ [2.0.15]
+* date no longer accepts e.g., September 31 in the MMDDhhmm syntax
+* fix a bug in this package's .m4 files and in configure.ac
+ [2.0.14]
+* nohup's behavior is changed as follows, to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001:
+  - nohup no longer adjusts scheduling priority; use "nice" for that.
+  - nohup now redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
+  - nohup exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
+    127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
+ [2.0.13]
+* uname and uptime work better on *BSD systems
+* pathchk now exits nonzero for a path with a directory component
+    that specifies a non-directory
+ [2.0.12]
+* kill: new program
+* who accepts new options: --all (-a), --boot (-b), --dead (-d), --login,
+   --process (-p), --runlevel (-r), --short (-s), --time (-t), --users (-u).
+   The -u option now produces POSIX-specified results and is the same as
+   the long option `--users'.  --idle is no longer the same as -u.
+* The following changes apply on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001,
+  and are required by the new POSIX standard:
+   - `date -I' is no longer supported.  Instead, use `date --iso-8601'.
+   - `nice -NUM' is no longer supported.  Instead, use `nice -n NUM'.
+* 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.
+* 'expr' now uses the LC_COLLATE locale for string comparison, as per POSIX.
+* 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote' to quote tokens;
+    this removes an incompatibility with POSIX.
+* date -d 'last friday' would print a date/time that was one hour off
+    (e.g., 23:00 on *thursday* rather than 00:00 of the preceding friday)
+    when run such that the current time and the target date/time fall on
+    opposite sides of a daylight savings time transition.
+    This problem arose only with relative date strings like `last monday'.
+    It was not a problem with strings that include absolute dates.
+* factor is twice as fast, for large numbers
+ [2.0.11]
+* setting the date now works properly, even when using -u
+* `date -f - < /dev/null' no longer dumps core
+* some DOS/Windows portability changes
+ [2.0j]
+* `date -d DATE' now parses certain relative DATEs correctly
+ [2.0i]
+* fixed a bug introduced in 2.0h that made many programs fail with a
+ `write error' when invoked with the --version option
+ [2.0h]
+* all programs fail when printing --help or --version output to a full device
+* printf exits nonzero upon write failure
+* yes now detects and terminates upon write failure
+* date --rfc-822 now always emits day and month names from the `C' locale
+* portability tweaks for Solaris8, Ultrix, and DOS
+ [2.0g]
+* date now handles two-digit years with leading zeros correctly.
+* printf interprets unicode, \uNNNN \UNNNNNNNN, on systems with the
+  required support;  from Bruno Haible.
+* stty's rprnt attribute now works on HPUX 10.20
+* seq's --equal-width option works more portably
+ [2.0f]
+* fix build problems with ut_name vs. ut_user
+ [2.0e]
+* stty: fix long-standing bug that caused test failures on at least HPUX
+  systems when COLUMNS was set to zero
+* still more portability fixes
+* unified lib/: now that directory and most of the configuration framework
+  is common between fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils
+ [2.0d]
+* fix portability problem with sleep vs lib/strtod.c's requirement for -lm
+ [2.0c]
+* fix portability problems with nanosleep.c and with the new code in sleep.c
+ [2.0b]
+* Regenerate lib/Makefile.in so that nanosleep.c is distributed.
+ [2.0a]
+* sleep accepts floating point arguments on command line
+* sleep's clock continues counting down when sleep is suspended
+* when a suspended sleep process is resumed, it continues sleeping if
+  there is any time remaining
+* who once again prints whatever host information it has, even without --lookup
+Changes in release 2.0
+* disable stty tests (otherwise they fail) when `make check' is run via rsh
+ [1.16m]
+* false and true now ignore --help and --version when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
+ [1.16l]
+* false and true are now C programs rather than shell scripts
+ [1.16k]
+* fix typos in my version of AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
+* fix dates on config files so builders don't need autoconf/automake
+ [1.16j]
+* work around problems with my use of AC_SEARCH_LIBS
+* fix a bug in id
+ [1.16i]
+* portability tweaks for lib/readutmp.[ch] and src/date.c
+ [1.16h]
+* seq with no arguments now elicits a useful diagnostic rather than a segfault
+* portability tweaks to work around utmpname differences
+* who works on Solaris
+ [1.16g]
+* factor now uses uintmax_t, so the largest number it can factor is now 2^64 - 1
+  on systems with type `long long'.
+* nohup no longer modifies the shell's search path
+* `basename /' now prints `/', per the single unix spec
+* `who --lookup' no longer erroneously reports `localhost' for IP addresses
+  for which it could not do a reverse lookup.
+* `id user' wouldn't report a group id in some situations.  Now it always does.
+ [1.16f]
+* chroot now calls chdir ("/") after chroot.
+* `date -s' now exits with nonzero status upon failure
+* new autoconf tests detect bugs in vendor mktime from Irix-6.4 and SunOS4.1.4
+  Your executables will be a little larger on such systems because you'll use
+  GNU's mktime function, but date will work more reliably.
+* hostid: new program
+* `yes --help' and `yes --version' print those strings when the POSIXLY_CORRECT
+  environment variable is set
+* who no longer does DNS lookups by default -- the new option, --lookup (-l),
+  enables lookups
+ [1.16e]
+* pinky: new lightweight finger-style program
+ [1.16d]
+* the groups script now exits non-zero and doesn't print anything more
+  when `id' fails
+ [1.16c]
+* date -u -d DATE now prints the correct date
+* don't remove already-installed su unless it is possible to install the
+  new one setuid root.
+ [1.16b]
+ [1.16a]
+* expr accepts new unary operator, quote.
+* expr now returns 0 for failed matches where pattern contained e.g., `\\('
+* date -d DATE now works on Unicos systems
+* add tests for factor and more for date.
+* factor runs a lot faster for large 64-bit inputs
+* date works with relative offsets involving the `next' keyword
+
+Changes in release 1.16
+* stty -tabs works properly
+* add tests for date
+* date --date "02/29/1996 - 1 year" now works properly
+
+Changes in release 1.15
+* nice works with very recently-changed GNU libc getopt
+* fix several bugs in m4 macros used to create `configure' script
+* id works on systems with disfunctional getgroups function
+* uptime configure test detects /proc/uptime on Linux
+
+Changes in release 1.14
+* fix bug in getdate.y that broke date's --date=DATE option on systems
+  like SunOS4.
+* expr treats unadorned ? and + as literals.  To make expr treat them as
+  operators you have to use \? and \+.
+
+Changes in release 1.13
+* two patches for ISC
+* Regenerate all Makefile.in using a patched version of automake-1.1l.
+ [1.12s]
+* lots of little bug fixes -- see ChangeLog
+ [1.12r]
+* uname --processor (-p) works on systems that have sysinfo and define
+  SI_ARCHITECTURE.
+* stty works better on systems like i386-pc-isc3.0
+* date --date=DATE accepts dates like those in an RCS log listing, e.g.,
+  `1992/11/01 05:44:34'.
+* printf now warns if excess arguments are ignored.
+* tee no longer fails immediately upon receipt of SIGPIPE
+ [1.12q]
+* running `make check' runs tests of nice
+* lots of configuration-related improvements
+* nice allows `+' in options like -+8 and -+13.
+* when matching, expr warns about non-portability when the first character
+  of the basic regular expression is `^'
+* `id user' no longer prints bogus group list
+* uses automake-generated Makefile templates
+* date accepts new %V format
+* date's %U and %W formats work properly
+* nice option handling works with 2-digit old-style-option adjustments.
+  Now, `nice -18 -- nice' prints `18'.  Before it printed `8'.
+* internationalized diagnostic messages
+* `date -d "01/01/1998 3 years" +%Y' now works properly.  It prints 2001.
+* New programs: chroot, factor, seq, uptime.
+* date accepts new option: --rfc-822 (-R)
+* date accepts new format, %z, for RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500)
+* date: fix bugs in the handling of date -u +'%s %Z'.
+* date accepts new option --reference=FILE (-r FILE) analogous to the
+  like-named touch option.
+* date can now format dates up to and including ones in the year 2037
+User visible changes in release 1.12
+* None.
+User visible changes in release 1.11
+* date accepts new option: (-f) --file=DATEFILE
+* skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
+* `stty werase ^W' works.  Before, werase wasn't enabled for AIX-3.2.5.
+* su with no arguments works properly
+* nice accepts options like `--5' (this is interpreted like `-n -5')
+* nice now interprets `-1 -1' like `-1' not like `-11'
+* `stty speed' and `stty size' no longer output a spurious newline
+User visible changes in release 1.10
+* change package name from shellutils to sh-utils
+* add hostname, pwd, and users commands
+* --version outputs the name of the utility as well as the package name
+  and version number.
+* Configure properly determines options for stty on SCO ODT 3.0 systems.
+* `date -d' works better.  Before, `date -d '4apr94'' produced
+  `Sun Apr  3 23:00:00 CDT 1994'.
+User visible changes in release 1.9.4
+* Repair stty option handling.
+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 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UCT
+* 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.
+
+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
+
+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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