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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:09:49 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject: please test: coreutils-5.91-1
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I've uploaded a test version of coreutils, 5.91-1.  This is a new,
unstable upstream release, with a number of changes from 5.3.0; and is
designed to be a candidate for a new stable release 5.92 in the next week
or so.  In particular, quite a few changes have been made upstream in
regards to text vs. binary mode, so some feedback on this list would be
appreciated before I promote the version to current (5.3.0-9 will remain
current at least as long as cygwin-1.5.18-1 stays current).  A full list
from the NEWS file appears below.  As coreutils provides quite a bit of
programs in daily use, I would recommend that you not upgrade to the test
version UNLESS you are willing to cope with and report regressions.  The
release was compiled against a cygwin snapshot, and WILL NOT WORK with
cygwin 1.5.18 (a number of the utilities depend on futimes, getline and
getdelim, which were not present in 1.5.18).  If you are going to test
coreutils-5.91-1, you must first download a recent snapshot, 20051020 or
later.

This version also has a new --append-exe option to ls(1) (and dir, vdir)
and stat(1); if a command-line argument does not have .exe, but the file
on the system does, then using this option will make the listing show the
.exe.  I found this addition to my ~/.bashrc useful to play with the new
options (the spacing is chosen so that bash doesn't treat the next word on
the command line as an alias):

ls --append-exe -d . >/dev/null 2>&1 && append_exe=' --append-exe'
alias ls="ls {your favorite options here}$append_exe"
alias stat="stat$append_exe"
unset append_exe

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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