Document the fact that basename and dirname conform to 1003.2-1992.

Remove description of old, pre-POSIX behavior wrt. suffixes.
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jtc 1993-08-16 22:03:50 +00:00
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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)basename.1 6.7 (Berkeley) 6/27/91
.\" $Id: basename.1,v 1.2 1993/08/01 07:34:19 mycroft Exp $
.\" $Id: basename.1,v 1.3 1993/08/16 22:03:50 jtc Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 27, 1991
.Dt BASENAME 1
@ -57,14 +57,6 @@ and a
.Ar suffix ,
if given.
The resulting filename is written to the standard output.
If
.Ar string
ends in the slash character,
.Ql / ,
or is the same as the
.Ar suffix
argument,
a newline is output.
A non-existant suffix is ignored.
.Pp
.Nm Dirname
@ -88,11 +80,12 @@ and
.Nm dirname
exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr csh 1
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr sh 1
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm basename
and
.Nm dirname
functions are expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible.
utilities conform to
.St -p1003.2 .