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Linux-Announce Digest #8
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Linux-Announce Digest #8, Volume #5 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:13:03 EST
Contents:
Press Release: SCALE 3x Plans Panel Discussion on the Future VoIP (Ilan Rabinovitch)
Press Release: Sophos to Join SCALE 3x - A Premier Linux and Open (Ilan Rabinovitch)
GNU Scientific Library 1.6 released (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GNU coreutils -- release ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:02:21 CST
From: Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan@socallinuxexpo.org>
Reply-To: ilan@socallinuxexpo.org
Subject: Press Release: SCALE 3x Plans Panel Discussion on the Future VoIP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles, CA
January 8, 2005
The Southern California Linux Expo has announced plans to host a panel
discussion on the future of open source and voice over IP technologies
at SCALE 3x. SCALE 3x, the Third Annual Southern California Linux Expo
is the premier grass roots Linux and Open Source conference.
Panel members will include Louie Mamakos, (Chief Technology Officer -
Vonage), Jeff Bonforte (SIPphone), and Darryl Strauss (President -
Digital Ordnance). These leaders from the VoIP and open source
communities will cover topics relevant to the future of open source
Voice Over IP (VoIP) efforts. Subtopics will include the effects of
government regulation on peer to peer (P2P) / open-source VoIP projects,
current future VoIP standards, as well as technical and legal hurdles.
Voice over IP, also known as IP Telephony, is a technology which allows
for voice communications over the Internet and other IP based networks.
VoIP allows for lower cost calls than traditional telecommunications
networks. According to a recent Gartner Dataquest forecast, VoIP
related revenues in 2005 should hit $10.6 billion and are expected grow
to $24 billion in 2008. With this type of growth it is no wonder VoIP is
the focus of major corporations and governments around the globe. SCALE
3x's seminars and panels will help you learn more about current and
future open-source VoIP technologies, as well as provide you with the
information you need to work with the coming developments and regulations.
ABOUT THE PANEL MEMBERS
Louis Mamakos is Chief Technology Office at Vonage. He oversees all
technology functions at Vonage, which includes new product and services
development, supervision of all research projects and integration of all
technology-based activities into Vonage's corporate strategy. Mr.
Mamakos has more than 20 years of experience in Internet technical
engineering and architecture for large scale, commercial IP backbone
networks. In the past Mr. Mamakos has held various positions at
Hyperchip, UUNET Technologies, and MCI. For more information on Vonage
see http://www.vonage.com
Jeff Bonforte is Public Relations Director for SIPphone. SIPphone a
leader in true SIP broadband calling. Mr. Bonforte has over 11 years in
high tech experience Prior to joining SIPphone, Mr. Bonforte was CEO of
iDrive.com, a leader in online file storage. In 2001 he was honored as
"Internet Entrepreneur of the Year" by President Clinton and Family
Celebration. For more information on Mr. Bonforte and SIPphone see:
http://www.sipphone.com
Daryll Strauss is a pioneer in the Linux community. He started using
Unix systems while in college at Carnegie Mellon back in 1984. He has
been involved in the Linux and open source community since 1995. His
first open source program was a driver to support the original Connectix
QuickCam. He is responsible for the first hardware accelerated 3D
support for Linux on the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card and built the Linux
cluster used to render images for Titanic. He is now president of
Digital Ordinance, a company that produces hardware and software to
support HDTV and film post production.
About The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 3x):
The Linux Expo of Southern California, Inc. is a non-profit
organization currently comprised, but not limited to, members of the
USCLUG, UCLALUG, and SCLUG. The mission of SCALE is outreach - our
goal is to evangelize the advantages of Open Source software. Open
Source software is any software that meets the litmus test of the OSI
(Open Source Initiative).
SCALE 3x will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on February
12th and 13th, 2005. Registration for sponsorship and attendance is
still open. Full conference passes are available at $65 (50% discount
available for students). Exhibit hall passes can be obtained at no cost
with the promotional code "free". More information on speakers,
sponsors, exhibitors, and the conference schedule is available online at
www.socallinuxexpo.org.
Media, Press and Interviews Contact:
Orv Beach
Publicity Chair
orv@socallinuxexpo.org
Sponsorship and Exhibitor Contact:
Ilan Rabinovitch
Conference Chair
818-442-1685 Voice
ilan@socallinuxexpo.org email
Speaker Contact:
Shyam Kapadia
Speaker and Seminar Chair
kapadia@socallinuxexpo.org
--
The Southern California Linux Expo (Feb 12-13, 2005) -- "We are bringing businesses, academic institutions and the Linux community together in a way that no other conference does!" http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:02:48 CST
From: Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan@socallinuxexpo.org>
Reply-To: ilan@socallinuxexpo.org
Subject: Press Release: Sophos to Join SCALE 3x - A Premier Linux and Open
Sophos to Join SCALE 3x - A Premier Linux and Open Source Conference
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles, CA
January 8, 2005
The Southern California Linux Expo has announced that Sophos has signed
on as one of the latest sponsors of SCALE 3x, the Third Annual Southern
California Linux Expo. SCALE 3x has been called " .. one of the few
good grass-root level technical conferences for Linux" by Linux Kernel
Developer Robert Love.
Sophos is a world leading computer security specialist, developing
anti-virus, anti-spam and email policy enforcement software for
businesses of all sizes. The company's products are sold and supported
in more than 150 countries and protect more than 25 million users. For
more information on Sophos, see: http://www.sophos.com or visit them at
booth #37 at the Southern California Linux Expo.
Sponsors at this year's Southern California Linux Expo include: IBM,
Novell, Yosemite Technologies, EMIC Networks, Linkline Communications,
TOLIS Group, New Avenue Systems, Barracuda Networks, 21st Century
Software, Petta Technology, PyX Technology, ObjectWeb Consortium, and
more. For a complete list of exhibitors and sponsors see:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions.php
SCALE 3x will have multiple conference tracks with discussions lead by
leaders of the open source and Linux community. Featured luminaries
this year include: John "maddog" Hall (Linux International), Kevin
Foreman (Real Networks), Marc Hamilton (Sun Microsystems), Paul Von
Stamwitz (AMCC/3Ware), Larry McVoy (BitKeeper), Louie Mamakos (Vonage)
and Glenn Flinchbaugh (Wind River Systems).
SCALE 3x will be held at the Los Angeles conference center on February
12th and 13th, 2005. Registration for sponsorship and attendance is
still open. Full conference passes are available at $65 (50% discount
available for students). Exhibit hall passes can be obtained at no cost
with the promotional code "free". More information on speakers,
sponsors, and exhibitors is available online at www.socallinuxexpo.org
About The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 3x):
The Linux Expo of Southern California, Inc is a non-profit organization
currently comprised, but not limited to, members of the USCLUG,
UCLALUG, and SCLUG. The mission of SCALE is outreach - our goal is to
evangelize the advantages of Open Source software. Open Source software
is any software that meets the litmus test of the OSI (Open Source
Initiative).
Media, Press and Interviews Contact:
Orv Beach
Publicity Chair
orv@socallinuxexpo.org
Sponsorship and Exhibitor Contact:
Ilan Rabinovitch
Conference Chair
818-442-1685 Voice
ilan@socallinuxexpo.org email
Speaker Contact:
Shyam Kapadia
Speaker and Seminar Chair
kapadia@socallinuxexpo.org
--
The Southern California Linux Expo (Feb 12-13, 2005) -- "We are bringing businesses, academic institutions and the Linux community together in a way that no other conference does!" http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:11:49 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU Scientific Library 1.6 released (fwd)
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Version 1.6 of the GNU Scientific Library is now available,
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.6.tar.gz (2.3 MB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.6.tar.gz.sig (GPG signature)
2c63ab9b925a7be70a5a5b4e0a95ea03 (MD5 checksum)
For ftp.gnu.org mirror sites, see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) provides a large collection of
functions for numerical computing in C. This version includes new
routines for wavelet decomposition, as well as bug-fixes. The full
NEWS file entry is appended below.
The GSL project home page is at http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
GSL is free software distributed under the GNU General Public
License.
Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and suggested improvements.
- --
Brian Gough
Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/
* What is new in gsl-1.6:
** Added a new wavelet directory, with 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional
discrete wavelet transforms (Dr. Ivo Alxneit).
** Added support for LQ and P^T LQ decompositions. To find the QR
decomposition of large systems (M>>N) use the LQ decomposition,
solving the transpose of the original system. This allows more
efficient memory access, and is useful for solving large least-squares
problems (Dr. J. Wensch).
** Fixed a bug in the SYRK and HERK blas functions gsl_blas_{s,d,c,z}syrk
and gsl_blas_{c,z}herk which caused invalid memory access for non-square
matrices.
** Fixed a bug in gsl_swap_vectors which caused it to return incorrect
results when swapping vectors with different strides.
** Corrected the error estimate for gsl_cheb_eval_n_err to use
evaluation order instead of the approximation order.
** Improved the reliability of the gsl_sf_gamma_inc family of
functions.
** Equal abscissae are now handled gracefully in the cspline and
periodic cspline interpolations.
** Removed potential cancellation error in calculation of uniform
histogram ranges.
** Improved numerical stability of integration for akima and cspline
interpolation.
** Differential equation solvers now handle error codes returned from
user-defined functions.
** Improved error estimates in ode-initval solvers, and provide exact
derivatives on output. Added new semi-implicit ode-initval solver,
gsl_odeiv_step_rk2simp. (T.Keskitalo)
** Added missing function definition for gsl_sf_psi_1.
** Fixed the function gsl_sf_expint_Ei_scaled to call
gsl_sf_expint_Ei_scaled_e instead of gsl_sf_expint_Ei_e.
** Added cumulative distribution function for exponential power
distribution (Dr.G.Bottazzi).
** The functions gsl_cdf_beta_P and gsl_cdf_beta_Q now return
consistent results of 0 or 1 for out of range values, x<0 and x>1,
rather than 0 for left and right tails simultaneously.
** The Jacobi eigensolvers gsl_eigen_jacobi and gsl_eigen_jacobi_invert
have new implementations from Golub and Van Loan.
** The standard output and standard error streams are now flushed by
the default error handler before the program aborts, in order to
ensure that error messages are properly displayed on some platforms.
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:11:52 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU coreutils -- release
>From jim@meyering.net Tue Jan 11 14:33:10 2005
I am happy to announce a test release of the GNU coreutils.
The GNU coreutils package is the combination of and replacement
for the fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
This package contains the following programs:
[ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date
dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt
fold groups head hostid hostname id install join kill link ln logname
ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr
printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort
split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty
uname unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes
There have been many changes in the nine months since the last release
(stable 5.2.1). So many that I feel 5.3.0 must be considered unstable.
There have been many bug fixes as well as quite a few feature additions.
The next release is expected to be a bug-fix-only release.
Special thanks go to Paul Eggert for his many contributions. Thanks to
everyone else who contributed changes (attributions are in the ChangeLog
files), reported problems, and helped by fielding questions on the
mailing list.
Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz (6.6MB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2 (4.3MB)
http://meyering.free.fr/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz (6.6MB)
http://meyering.free.fr/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2 (4.3MB)
Here are the xdelta-style diffs:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1-5.3.0.xdelta (1.9MB)
http://meyering.free.fr/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1-5.3.0.xdelta (1.9MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz.sig
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2.sig
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Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:
9020750cc0be4a0d1b14b75620e9ede1 coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz
903890208248639ac723d2c4988e04bd coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2
d1560a9b3a248ec674f42074177148c8 coreutils-5.2.1-5.3.0.xdelta
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3fcaaa87ace1a6e239e2fbafcb121a7836a14f32 coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2
8f0a7235e97c802de7ebfaa3fd012fec7aed00e9 coreutils-5.2.1-5.3.0.xdelta
NEWS
* Major changes in release 5.3.0 (2005-01-08) [unstable]
** Bug fixes
Several fixes to chgrp and chown for compatibility with POSIX and BSD:
Do not affect symbolic links by default.
Now, operate on whatever a symbolic link points to, instead.
To get the old behavior, use --no-dereference (-h).
--dereference now works, even when the specified owner
and/or group match those of an affected symlink.
Check for incompatible options. When -R and --dereference are
both used, then either -H or -L must also be used. When -R and -h
are both used, then -P must be in effect.
-H, -L, and -P have no effect unless -R is also specified.
If -P and -R are both specified, -h is assumed.
Do not optimize away the chown() system call when the file's owner
and group already have the desired value. This optimization was
incorrect, as it failed to update the last-changed time and reset
special permission bits, as POSIX requires.
"chown : file", "chown '' file", and "chgrp '' file" now succeed
without changing the uid or gid, instead of reporting an error.
Do not report an error if the owner or group of a
recursively-encountered symbolic link cannot be updated because
the file system does not support it.
chmod now accepts multiple mode-like options, e.g., "chmod -r -w f".
chown is no longer subject to a race condition vulnerability, when
used with --from=O:G and without the (-h) --no-dereference option.
cut's --output-delimiter=D option works with abutting byte ranges.
dircolors's documentation now recommends that shell scripts eval
"`dircolors`" rather than `dircolors`, to avoid shell expansion pitfalls.
du no longer segfaults when a subdirectory of an operand
directory is removed while du is traversing that subdirectory.
Since the bug was in the underlying fts.c module, it also affected
chown, chmod, and chgrp.
du's --exclude-from=FILE and --exclude=P options now compare patterns
against the entire name of each file, rather than against just the
final component.
echo now conforms to POSIX better. It supports the \0ooo syntax for
octal escapes, and \c now terminates printing immediately. If
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now
outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options.
expand and unexpand now conform to POSIX better. They check for
blanks (which can include characters other than space and tab in
non-POSIX locales) instead of spaces and tabs. Unexpand now
preserves some blanks instead of converting them to tabs or spaces.
"ln x d/" now reports an error if d/x is a directory and x a file,
instead of incorrectly creating a link to d/x/x.
ls no longer segfaults on systems for which SIZE_MAX != (size_t) -1.
md5sum and sha1sum now report an error when given so many input
lines that their line counter overflows, instead of silently
reporting incorrect results.
Fixes for "nice":
If it fails to lower the nice value due to lack of permissions,
it goes ahead and runs the command anyway, as POSIX requires.
It no longer incorrectly reports an error if the current nice
value happens to be -1.
It no longer assumes that nice values range from -20 through 19.
It now consistently adjusts out-of-range nice values to the
closest values in range; formerly it sometimes reported an error.
pathchk no longer accepts trailing options, e.g., "pathchk -p foo -b"
now treats -b as a file name to check, not as an invalid option.
`pr --columns=N' was not equivalent to `pr -N' when also using
either -s or -w.
pr now supports page numbers up to 2**64 on most hosts, and it
detects page number overflow instead of silently wrapping around.
pr now accepts file names that begin with "+" so long as the rest of
the file name does not look like a page range.
printf has several changes:
It now uses 'intmax_t' (not 'long int') to format integers, so it
can now format 64-bit integers on most modern hosts.
On modern hosts it now supports the C99-inspired %a, %A, %F conversion
specs, the "'" and "0" flags, and the ll, j, t, and z length modifiers
(this is compatible with recent Bash versions).
The printf command now rejects invalid conversion specifications
like %#d, instead of relying on undefined behavior in the underlying
printf function.
ptx now diagnoses invalid values for its --width=N (-w)
and --gap-size=N (-g) options.
mv (when moving between partitions) no longer fails when
operating on too many command-line-specified nonempty directories.
rm (without -f) no longer hangs when attempting to remove a symlink
to a file on an off-line NFS-mounted partition.
rm no longer gets a failed assertion under some unusual conditions.
rm no longer requires read access to the current directory.
"rm -r" would mistakenly fail to remove files under a directory
for some types of errors (e.g., read-only file system, I/O error)
when first encountering the directory.
"sort" fixes:
"sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard
output; POSIX requires this.
An unlikely race condition has been fixed where "sort" could have
mistakenly removed a temporary file belonging to some other process.
"sort" no longer has O(N**2) behavior when it creates many temporary files.
tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's
/proc/modules. Before, it would produce no output for such a file.
tac would exit immediately upon I/O or temp-file creation failure.
Now it continues on, processing any remaining command line arguments.
"tail -f" no longer mishandles pipes and fifos. With no operands,
tail now ignores -f if standard input is a pipe, as POSIX requires.
When conforming to POSIX 1003.2-1992, tail now supports the SUSv2 b
modifier (e.g., "tail -10b file") and it handles some obscure cases
more correctly, e.g., "tail +cl" now reads the file "+cl" rather
than reporting an error, "tail -c file" no longer reports an error,
and "tail - file" no longer reads standard input.
tee now exits when it gets a SIGPIPE signal, as POSIX requires.
To get tee's old behavior, use the shell command "(trap '' PIPE; tee)".
Also, "tee -" now writes to standard output instead of to a file named "-".
"touch -- MMDDhhmm[yy] file" is now equivalent to
"touch MMDDhhmm[yy] file" even when conforming to pre-2001 POSIX.
tr no longer mishandles a second operand with leading "-".
who now prints user names in full instead of truncating them after 8 bytes.
The following commands now reject unknown options instead of
accepting them as operands, so that users are properly warned that
options may be added later. Formerly they accepted unknown options
as operands; e.g., "basename -a a" acted like "basename -- -a a".
basename dirname factor hostname link nohup sync unlink yes
** New features
For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file
merely because the input happens to come from a pipe. As a result,
some relatively-contrived examples like `cat F | sort -m -o F - G'
are no longer safe, as `sort' might start writing F before `cat' is
done reading it. This problem cannot occur unless `-m' is used.
When outside the default POSIX locale, the 'who' and 'pinky'
commands now output time stamps like "2004-06-21 13:09" instead of
the traditional "Jun 21 13:09".
pwd now works even when run from a working directory whose name
is longer than PATH_MAX.
cp, install, ln, and mv have a new --no-target-directory (-T) option,
and -t is now a short name for their --target-directory option.
cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now don't bother to update the
destination if the resulting time stamp would be no newer than the
preexisting time stamp. This saves work in the common case when
copying or moving multiple times to the same destination in a file
system with a coarse time stamp resolution.
cut accepts a new option, --complement, to complement the set of
selected bytes, characters, or fields.
dd now also prints the number of bytes transferred, the time, and the
transfer rate. The new "status=noxfer" operand suppresses this change.
dd has new conversions for the conv= option:
nocreat do not create the output file
excl fail if the output file already exists
fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing
fsync likewise, but also write metadata
dd has new iflag= and oflag= options with the following flags:
append append mode (makes sense for output file only)
direct use direct I/O for data
dsync use synchronized I/O for data
sync likewise, but also for metadata
nonblock use non-blocking I/O
nofollow do not follow symlinks
noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file
stty now provides support (iutf8) for setting UTF-8 input mode.
With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline terminated.
If you want a newline at the end of your output, append `\n' to the format
string.
'df', 'du', and 'ls' now take the default block size from the
BLOCKSIZE environment variable if the BLOCK_SIZE, DF_BLOCK_SIZE,
DU_BLOCK_SIZE, and LS_BLOCK_SIZE environment variables are not set.
Unlike the other variables, though, BLOCKSIZE does not affect
values like 'ls -l' sizes that are normally displayed as bytes.
This new behavior is for compatibility with BSD.
du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a
list of NUL-terminated file names.
Date syntax as used by date -d, date -f, and touch -d has been
changed as follows:
Dates like `January 32' with out-of-range components are now rejected.
Dates can have fractional time stamps like 2004-02-27 14:19:13.489392193.
Dates can be entered via integer counts of seconds since 1970 when
prefixed by `@'. For example, `@321' represents 1970-01-01 00:05:21 UTC.
Time zone corrections can now separate hours and minutes with a colon,
and can follow standard abbreviations like "UTC". For example,
"UTC +0530" and "+05:30" are supported, and are both equivalent to "+0530".
Date values can now have leading TZ="..." assignments that override
the environment only while that date is being processed. For example,
the following shell command converts from Paris to New York time:
TZ="America/New_York" date --date='TZ="Europe/Paris" 2004-10-31 06:30'
`date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs
nanosecond-resolution time stamps.
echo -e '\xHH' now outputs a byte whose hexadecimal value is HH,
for compatibility with bash.
ls now exits with status 1 on minor problems, 2 if serious trouble.
ls has a new --hide=PATTERN option that behaves like
--ignore=PATTERN, except that it is overridden by -a or -A.
This can be useful for aliases, e.g., if lh is an alias for
"ls --hide='*~'", then "lh -A" lists the file "README~".
In the following cases POSIX allows the default GNU behavior,
so when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set:
false, printf, true, unlink, and yes all support --help and --option.
ls supports TABSIZE.
pr no longer depends on LC_TIME for the date format in non-POSIX locales.
printf supports \u, \U, \x.
tail supports two or more files when using the obsolete option syntax.
The usual `--' operand is now supported by chroot, hostid, hostname,
pwd, sync, and yes.
`od' now conforms to POSIX better, and is more compatible with BSD:
The older syntax "od [-abcdfilosx]... [FILE] [[+]OFFSET[.][b]]" now works
even without --traditional. This is a change in behavior if there
are one or two operands and the last one begins with +, or if
there are two operands and the latter one begins with a digit.
For example, "od foo 10" and "od +10" now treat the last operand as
an offset, not as a file name.
-h is no longer documented, and may be withdrawn in future versions.
Use -x or -t x2 instead.
-i is now equivalent to -t dI (not -t d2), and
-l is now equivalent to -t dL (not -t d4).
-s is now equivalent to -t d2. The old "-s[NUM]" or "-s NUM"
option has been renamed to "-S NUM".
The default output format is now -t oS, not -t o2, i.e., short int
rather than two-byte int. This makes a difference only on hosts like
Cray systems where the C short int type requires more than two bytes.
The stat option --filesystem has been renamed to --file-system, for
consistency with POSIX "file system" and with cp and du --one-file-system.
** Removed features
md5sum and sha1sum's undocumented --string option has been removed.
tail's undocumented --max-consecutive-size-changes option has been removed.
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