On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:30:05PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> | Full details are available at
> | http://bugs.debian.org/80541
> |
> | In that thread, Christian Kurz also noted that FreeBSD's tail already
> | supports a -F option whose behaviour is almost identical to this proposed
> | option. The same is true in NetBSD.
>
> So it's somehow different?
It's only cosmetic so it's probably not particularly important that we
switch to their behaviour. The manual page for NetBSD's tail can be found
at
http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/netbsd/tail.1
> Thanks for the patch.
The credit should go to Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> If you feel like working on this a little more, it'd be nice also to
> update the usage function (--help output, and hence the man page)
> and doc/textutils.texi.
Christian, would you like to do this?
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