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

info: (coreutils)common options - backup options

2018-08-02 Thread kalle
see "The valid METHODS 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#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

w(1), who(1), last(1) and unix philosophy

2018-07-03 Thread kalle
it make sense in the spirit of UNIX philosophy to have only one specialized command with the different capabilities included ?? 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