Hi Antonio,
Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> writes:
> I have found some minor issues in standards.texi: an unaligned menu
> entry, a typo (s/iss/its/), and several changed/incorrect/obsolete
> options in the table of long options:
>
> The short option for --one-file-system in cp and du is -x, not -l.
>
> Earlier versions of GNU 'tar' understood '-l' option as a synonym
> for '--one-file-system'. Since such usage contradicted to UNIX98
> specification and harmed compatibility with other implementations,
> it was declared deprecated in version 1.14.
>
> Earlier versions of GNU 'tar' understood '-o' command line option
> as a synonym for '--old-archive'.
> GNU 'tar' starting from version 1.13.90 understands this option as
> a synonym for '--no-same-owner'. This is compatible with UNIX98
> 'tar' implementations.
>
> Use of options '--portability' and '--old-archive'
> These options are deprecated. Please use '--format=v7' instead.
Good catch on the typos.
I know less about the options. I'm sure many in the document are
out-of-date.
> @@ -1965,7 +1964,7 @@
> @samp{-P} in @code{finger}.
>
> @item portability
> -@samp{-c} in @code{cpio} and @code{tar}.
> +@samp{-c} in @code{cpio}.
@samp{-c} should be under "@item create" for "@code{tar}", yes?
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