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- Major changes in release 3.6:
- * `ln -s dir_pathname .' works when the pathname has a trailing slash
- * with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately
- * GNU ls -f works like Unix ls -f
- * mktime replacement works
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- Major changes in release 3.5:
- * adds support for DEC Alpha under OSF/1
- * configuring with gcc uses CFLAGS='-g -O' by default
- * all programs accept --help and --version options
- * long-named options must be introduced with `--'; `+' is no longer
- accepted since it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard
- * chmod accepts long-named options
- * dd conv=unblock doesn't hang
- * new df option --exclude=fstype
- * new ls option --full-time
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- Major changes in release 3.4:
- * cp -p and mv preserve setuid and setgid bits
- * chown works on systems where sizeof(uid_t) != sizeof(int)
- or sizeof(uid) != sizeof(gid)
- * catch errors from spurious slashes at ends of arguments
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- Major changes in release 3.3:
- * df sped up by not calling sync for every filesystem
- * df ported to AIX (RS/6000 and PS/2), and SVR2 port fixed
- * df -i now also prints the total number of inodes per filesystem
- * ls sped up by not reading symlink contents unnecessarily
- * du doesn't die on POSIX systems when the root filesystem is NFS mounted
- * cp and mv report chown Permission denied errors when run by root
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