weird interaction betwixt cat & dd (?) w/coreutils-6.9

2008-01-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Just ran into some weirdness that seems a bit "off" to me. Perhaps there is a logical explanation, related to timing and the timing is causing the weirdness, but I thought I'd run it by the list and see what you guys thought. I started with 2 files about 250MB in length (random, compressed data)

Re: PDT timezone bug in GNU coreutils "date" v6.9

2008-01-18 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Bob Proulx wrote: But the case under discussion was PDT not EST. $ TZ=US/Pacific date -d"Tue Jan 14 08:25:26 PDT 2008" date: invalid date `Tue Jan 14 08:25:26 PDT 2008' At this point I don't know if PDT is ambiguous or not Not to getdate. There is one "PDT" entry in ti

Re: wrong result from wc

2008-01-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Manu Hack on 1/18/2008 12:59 AM: | Hi, | | I have a data file attached. When I run Please restrain from posting 5 megabyte files to every reader of this list - - first try to narrow your problem down to something MUCH smaller. | | wc -

FYI: README update

2008-01-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Update README. * README: Remove a note about failing tests on SunOS 4. On Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1), you'll need --disable-acl. (Running tests as root): Recommend using "check-root", not "check". diff --git a/README b/README index 25f7ed3..4914052 100644 --- a/REA