>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 17 14:26:30 2001

>>Why make tools with a greater ease of use life harder?

>Sure? let's use something different from GNUtar so you cannot tell
>that I am only pointing to GNU tar:

>       Why does GNU tail does not support the -b option?
>       -b is in the standard and the fact that GNU tar is
                                                ^^^^^^^
>       far way off from the standard makes life harder when I
>       am constantly switching between OSes as I need to write
>       portable software.

Sorry, this should of course be 'GNU tail' in the last sentence.

J�rg

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