coreutils-5.96 released

The GNU coreutils package contains the following programs:

  [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd
  df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold
  ginstall groups head hostid hostname id join kill link ln logname ls
  md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr
  printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort
  split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty
  uname unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes

The coreutils package replaces/unifies the fileutils, sh-utils, and
textutils packages.

This is a stable release.
In addition to the fixes mentioned in NEWS, below, there are changes
for improved portability, eliminating build/compile failures on the
following systems:

  FreeBSD 5.0
  Mac OS X 10.3.9 with GCC 3
  Mingw

Thanks to Paul Eggert for doing most of the work, this time.

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Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.96.tar.gz   (7.6MB)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.96.tar.bz2   (4.9MB)

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