regarding head/tail syntax

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Griffis
Hello, I'm a developer for the Gentoo Linux distribution. Right now we've been doing some work on packages to make them work with head/tail from coreutils-5.0, which as you know no longer support the -number syntax. This led me to do some investigation and eventually write this email. First, I

Re: CP Bug Detected ?

2003-09-21 Thread Rivalino M. Jr.
Original Message - From: Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 5:33 PM Subject: Re: CP Bug Detected ? Rivalino Matias Jr. wrote: Yes. That is very traditional behavior. When this behavior could be useful for