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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 4114aa3..c58fdb7 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ <para>&man.acct.2; has been changed to open the accounting file in append mode, so that &man.accton.8; can be used to enable - accounting to an append-only file.</para> + accounting to an append-only file. &merged;</para> <para arch="i386" role="historic">The &man.amdpm.4; driver has been added to provide access to the system monitoring functions of the AMD 756 @@ -1972,6 +1972,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> not disturb the terminal contents as <command>biff y</command> would).</para> + <para>&man.biff.1; now uses the first terminal associated with the + standard input, standard output or standard error file + descriptor, in that order. Thus, it is possible to use the + redirection facilities of a shell (<command>biff n < + /dev/ttyp1</command>) to toggle the notification for other + terminals.</para> + <para arch="pc98" role="historic">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager installation and configuration utility, has been added. &merged;</para> @@ -2068,6 +2075,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para role="historic">A number of buffer overflows in &man.config.8; have been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.cp.1; now takes a (nonstandard) <option>-n</option> + option to automatically answer <quote>no</quote> when it would + ask to overwrite a file.</para> + <para>A new &man.csplit.1; utility, which splits files based on context, has been added.</para> @@ -2608,6 +2619,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> to the default options in <filename>/etc/defaults/rc.conf</filename>. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.mesg.1; now conforms to SUSv3. Among other things, it + now uses the first terminal associated with the standard input, + standard output or standard error file descriptor, in that order. + Thus, it is possible to use the redirection facilities of a shell + (<command>mesg n < /dev/ttyp1</command>) to control write access + for other terminals.</para> + <para role="historic">mk_cmds(1) and the associated <filename>libss</filename> have been removed; they have been unused for quite some time. &merged;</para> |