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Re: warn of obsolete tail usage on the man page too
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: warn of obsolete tail usage on the man page too |
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Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:40:15 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:
> Perhaps also warn about obsolete thing on the man page too.
The CVS documentation mentions the old usage; look for "older systems".
"tail --help" (and therefore the man page) does not mention this,
because it is supposed to be brief. A discussion about obsolete usage
would have to be longwinded to be accurate and would probably cause
more harm and confusion than it'd cure.