Re: bug in the unix join command or maybe in the sort command

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Robert Castelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz > > thanks, i've downloaded the sources but there is no call to strcoll > within sort.c :-? Please look for calls to xmemcoll, which eventually invokes strcoll. > in any case, since my locale i

Re: stty and/or ksh problem with columns

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Eggert
>From what you describe, it appears to be a bug in ksh, not stty, so a mailing list other than bug-coreutils would be appropriate. Or you might try switching to Bash ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

Re: man prints binary characters to the screen.

2005-02-04 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Thomas Herter wrote: >With this setting of TERM and with this Linux version: > > stnsp013:/home/therter> set | grep TERM > TERM=vt100 > stnsp013:/home/therter> uname -a > Linux stnsp013 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:18:24 EDT 2004 i686 i686 > i386 GNU/Linux What te

Re: I think I found a bug in the mv command

2005-02-04 Thread Jim Meyering
mv' sees three arguments, and provokes the diagnostic you reported. $ date --date='2005-02-04 02:00' +%Y%m%d-%k%M 20050204- 200 Use a format like %H that has zero-filled numbers. $ date --date='2005-02-04 02:00' +%Y%m%d-%H%M 20050204-0200

Re: man prints binary characters to the screen.

2005-02-04 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:39:41PM -0800, Thomas Herter wrote: > With this setting of TERM and with this Linux version: > > stnsp013:/home/therter> set | grep TERM > TERM=vt100 > stnsp013:/home/therter> uname -a > Linux stnsp013 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:18:24 EDT 2004 i686 > i

I think I found a bug in the mv command

2005-02-04 Thread Ian MacGregor
I think I found a bug in the mv command. Here's the scenario: I have the following in a bash script that is run as a root cronjob: --- begin bash script code, contents of myuserbackup.sh --- #!/bin/bash # this bash script is intended to be run as a cronjob for root # line 1 - backup the entire /

man prints binary characters to the screen.

2005-02-04 Thread Thomas Herter
With this setting of TERM and with this Linux version: stnsp013:/home/therter> set | grep TERM TERM=vt100 stnsp013:/home/therter> uname -a Linux stnsp013 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:18:24 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux man formatted pages contain often strange binary characte

stty and/or ksh problem with columns

2005-02-04 Thread Thomas Herter
On the following Linux version: stnsp013:/home/therter> uname -a Linux stnsp013 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:18:24 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux stty always reports correct number of columns: stnsp013:/home/therter> stty -a speed 9600 baud; rows 64; columns 100; line = 0; intr = ^C;