[EMAIL PROTECTED] said this stuff: > After 10 years of being merely `obsolescent', head -N has finally > been officially declared to be `obsolete'.
I have yet to see a pointer to where the historic usage has been declared "obsolete", outside of personal declarations that it has been "officially declared obsolete" elsewhere. Surely, you can't mean to imply that merely because it has been withdrawn from the posix guidelines, it has become obsolete. This would be a misinterpretation of posix in general. The authors of the posix guidelines have simply opted to not discuss it further, just as they don't discuss 'head -c'. That is, aside from an informational note, mentioning that they have intentionally left the '-c' option out --- which, coincidentally, doesn't make it obsolete, either. If i'm mistaken, please do point me to this official declaration. If you have no official declaration, at least point me to an excerpt in the posix publication stating, definitively, that when a feature is withdrawn from posix, it becomes officially obsolete for posix-conforming implementations. ari _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
