From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:36:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document recent changes to "pr".
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Document recent changes to "pr".
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 71a3b919da..a6eaded25e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   pathchk no longer accepts trailing options, e.g., "pathchk -p foo -b"
   now treats -b as a file name to check, not as an invalid option.
 
+  pr now supports page numbers up to 2**64 on most hosts, and it
+  detects page number overflow instead of silently wrapping around.
+  pr now accepts file names that begin with "+" so long as the rest of
+  the file name does not look like a page range.
+
   printf has several changes:
 
     It now uses 'intmax_t' (not 'long int') to format integers, so it