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Archive-name: auto/gnu.announce/GNU-file-utilities-3-2-released

A new release of the GNU file management programs is available for
anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38], in the file
pub/gnu/fileutils-3.2.tar.Z.

The programs in the fileutils are:

chgrp chmod chown cp dd df du install ln ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mv rm
rmdir touch

mkfifo is a POSIX.2 invention that is like `mknod file p'.
tac prints files backwards.

Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix
counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer
arbitrary limits.

Major changes in this release are:

* port df to SVR2, Irix, and Dynix
* fix df blocksize calculation on 4.3BSD
* make df work better with automounters
* speed up dd, at least in some cases
* install -d can install multiple directories at a time
* install -m accepts symbolic modes like chmod
* install doesn't clear set[ug]id bits that you asked for if you're not root
* remove broken and not very useful -L option from chown, chgrp, and chmod
* make chown and chgrp work on symlinks
* ls and du return a nonzero exit status if a nonfatal error occurred
* fix a race condition in rm -f that could cause spurious warning messages
* ls -l is more tolerant of NFS time mismatches for determining the date format
* long options begin with `--', with `+' still supported temporarily
* lots of portability and POSIX.1 tweaks

Please send bug reports for this software to the mailing list
	bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu