On Thursday 04 December 2003 14:20, Spider wrote:
> > head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
> > Try `head --help' for more information.
> >
> > why is this obsoleted?
>
> POSIX compliance.
>
ok, acceptable
> > And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a
> > warning and then continue, but it only gives an error and stops.
>
> it's been a warning about it for some time, in the documentation afair
> ("deprecated..." ).
nice, and who reads the documentation for such common utils?? i did when i
started using them but not anymore...
> if you go completely whacked on it, I'd suggest reinstalling the older
> package 's tail/head until you've waited out the rest of the world + pet
> + old projects to fix this.
nah, we should learn to live with this. better start now
Rudmer
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