Evan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the end spec, however, characters *still* count from 1, but there's a > wholly unnecessary option to specify the full field by adding .0--which > can be done equally well by *not* adding .0. It's a no-op. We just > ignore it.
Just like you can ignore a .1 in the start spec. But you can't ignore a .0 in a start spec, because it is wrong. You can't denote the _end_ of the start field. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
