bug#32250: ls -explain better the different times

2018-12-31 Thread kalle
hello, i'm happy that so much later someone cares about my bug-report. Am 31.12.2018 um 05:13 schrieb Assaf Gordon: > Hello, > > On 2018-07-23 9:54 a.m., kalle wrote: >> in the documentation of ls the concept of the different times is not >> explained sufficiently well

bug#32533: my documentation improvement proposals are in most cases not answered

2018-08-26 Thread kalle
, and I would also like to see language usage becoming easier (maybe in the direction of 'simple english'), but I didn't do anything on the latter yet. Looking at my bug-reports on coreutils' bug-list (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?which=submitter=kalle%40projektwerkstatt.de) , I see

bug#32464: again:: info: (coreutils)common options - backup options

2018-08-17 Thread kalle
THODs are": -> for better readability, the above sentence should be started with a new paragraph, since it is not related to information, whether the option `-b' corresponds to some Emacs-variable or not... greetings, kalle

bug#29315: info cp: documentation feedback

2018-08-16 Thread kalle
I already sent this mail on 19.05.2018, but since I got no response and my bug-report then had be closed and I just unarchived and reopened it, here again my message. > Am 10.12.2017 um 01:23 schrieb Pádraig Brady: >> On 16/11/17 03:36, kalle wrote: >> here some mistakes/improv

bug#31712: cp --attributes-only

2018-08-06 Thread kalle
Am 11.06.2018 um 01:38 schrieb Pádraig Brady:> On 19/05/18 00:54, kalle wrote: >> hello, >> I have coreutils 8.26 >> and the option >> >> cp --attributes only FILE OTHERFILE >> >> correctly doesn't copy the content of FILE, >> but the modificat

bug#31712: cp --attributes-only

2018-08-06 Thread kalle
unarchive 31712

bug#32250: ls -explain better the different times

2018-07-23 Thread kalle
hello, in the documentation of ls the concept of the different times is not explained sufficiently well (mtime, atime, ctime). greetings, kalle

bug#31712: cp --attributes-only

2018-06-04 Thread kalle
hello, I have coreutils 8.26 and the option cp --attributes only FILE OTHERFILE correctly doesn't copy the content of FILE, but the modification time of OTHERFILE is the actual date, whereas I understood that it should be the same as in FILE. kalle

bug#29069: bug#31043: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric, modes'

2018-04-11 Thread kalle
Am 04.04.2018 um 00:10 schrieb Paul Eggert: > On 04/03/2018 12:29 PM, kalle wrote: >> >> But what do you think of my teaching concept, to try to explain why a >> `7' in `755' means =4+2+1=111=rwx="rwx for owner", which is assumed as >> self-evident or intuiti

bug#29069: bug#31043: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric, modes'

2018-04-03 Thread kalle
uot;are sometimes special" to "have a special meaning for directories" ? > > I also merged Bug#31043 with Bug#29069 since they're the same topic. The problem was, that when writing "Bug#29069" in the subject, nobody responded to my patch proposal, which at the end was nearly to frustrating. greetings, kalle

bug#31043: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric, modes'

2018-04-03 Thread kalle
hello, below a patch proposal of mine. kalle >From b250dcdaba02083a0174d9157c655f0dbb586ef6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kalle <ka...@projektwerkstatt.de> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:56:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric modes' I

bug#29069:

2018-03-27 Thread kalle
le to give in the patches myself. But for my last 2 mails sending in my patch proposals, no response came... here now for the 4th time again my patch proposal for chapter 27.3: >From b250dcdaba02083a0174d9157c655f0dbb586ef6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kalle <ka...@projektwerkstatt.de&g

bug#29069: Fwd: Fwd: Re: bug#29069: info coreutils file permissions: improvements/bug-report

2018-03-12 Thread kalle
until now, no one responded to my patch proposal neither encorporated it as I see. why not? kalle Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Fwd: Re: bug#29069: info coreutils file permissions: improvements/bug-report Datum: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:55:31 +0100 Von: kalle <

bug#30717: i miss some ls-features

2018-03-05 Thread kalle
hello I wonder why for the ls-command I don't find the following features, I consider important: - list the size of files. For directories, list the total size of the tree beneath them - for ls -R (recursive presentation) limit it to a certain depth greetings, kalle

bug#29069: Fwd: Re: bug#29069: info coreutils file permissions: improvements/bug-report

2018-01-30 Thread kalle
I have a patch for chapter 27.3, coreutils texinfo-document. greetings, kalle From b250dcdaba02083a0174d9157c655f0dbb586ef6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kalle <ka...@projektwerkstatt.de> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:56:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permi

bug#29069: info coreutils file permissions: improvements/bug-report

2018-01-19 Thread kalle
Am 16.12.2017 um 22:14 schrieb Assaf Gordon: > Hello, > > On 2017-12-16 01:52 PM, kalle wrote: >> did you plan to respond my mail? > > Please remember GNU coreutils is maintained by volunteers. > We aim for best effort in incorporating improvement suggest

bug#29207: info chmod

2017-11-20 Thread kalle
On 09.11.2017 11:53, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 11/08/2017 11:54 AM, kalle wrote: info chmod doesn't say, which users can apply it successfully. The same for info chown. Well, it does - indirectly: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/chmod-invocation.html#chmod

bug#29317: info shred:documentation feedback

2017-11-16 Thread kalle
hello, - at the sentence "by default does not truncate": what does truncating a file means? Could this be described better in the manual? -part "on a busy system": why is this written here? Is this a usual method to overwrite content? thanks, kalle

bug#29316: info dd: documentation feedback

2017-11-16 Thread kalle
hello, what I think is missing in info coreutils/page `dd' are better explanations of the concept of a 'block' and what the block-length/property blocked - unblocked means to a file. greetings, kalle

bug#29315: info cp: documentation feedback

2017-11-16 Thread kalle
hould be added ", if the user has write-permission in the containing directory." -part "-i": shouldn't be written "When copying to a file" instead? greetings, kalle

bug#29069: info coreutils file permissions: improvements/bug-report

2017-11-09 Thread kalle
s > soon as possible -> more users, less mistakes.. No. Since it is not standard documentation I am a bit exhausted by discussion about corrections in free software community in difficult english just now. I would prefer to not correct this mistake now. What about you? greetings, kalle

bug#29207: info chmod

2017-11-08 Thread kalle
info chmod doesn't say, which users can apply it successfully. The same for info chown. Are the related man-pages also maintained by GNU coreutils? They also have the same deficiencies... greetings, kalle

bug#29069: info coreutils file permissions: improvements/bug-report

2017-11-08 Thread kalle
hi, the parts concerning 27.3 (numeric modes) have been put into a different e-mail by me. >On 2017-10-30 02:38 PM, kalle wrote: >> here some improvement proposals/bug report on info coreutils file permissions: >> >> -in my opinion it would be good to explain the general

bug#29069: improvement proposals texinfo-coreutils, 27.3 (numeric modes)

2017-11-08 Thread kalle
hello there, this e-mail continues the discussion about improvement proposals about info coreutils,section "File permissions". '>>' was me (ka...@projektwerkstatt.de writing, '>' was assafgor...@gmail.com This mail continues the specialized debate about `27.3 (numeric modes)'. >> -27.3: is

bug#29069: info coreutils file permissions: improvements/bug-report

2017-10-30 Thread kalle
is a GNU extension". Which behavior is meant? And if it concerns the whole section 27.5, it should be put right at the beginning. greetings, kalle

bug#27136: info coreutils

2017-08-13 Thread kalle
hmm. no one is responding anymore. No change in cat-Documentation then? Am 25.07.2017 um 00:31 schrieb kalle: > > > Am 30.05.2017 um 00:08 schrieb Pádraig Brady: >> On 29/05/17 14:06, kalle wrote: >>> hello, >>> I think it is not obvious for everyon

bug#27136: info coreutils

2017-05-29 Thread kalle
hello, I think it is not obvious for everyone how to deal with Standard Input in the `cat'-command. I took some time to figure out, that Ctrl-d aborts it. and just now I realized, that EOF the first time acts to terminate a so called "record" (I got the term from "info coreutils 'tac'"), and

vsnprintf - segement fault

2006-04-27 Thread Kalle Skott
' etc will not generate segment fault. Looking forward for a reply, regards, Kalle Skott [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Please change my email address in THANKS.

2003-08-26 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
I am listed in coreutils-5.0.90/THANKS as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Please change the address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils