bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages

[Assaf Gordon]

On 11/28/2015 06:16 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 28/11/15 23:02, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > The archives (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/) start 2010,
> > so does anyone remember why K would be less ambigous than N?
>
> The mailing list split around then:
> I remember having slight reservations about K too.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00279.html
> Nothing much better comes to mind.

Likely this message:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00200.html

Perhaps it was too similar/confusing to the (now discouraged) usage of "-N" with N being 
a digit (e.g. "head -9" to display 9 lines) ?


Slightly off topic,
if you want to search in multiple gnu mailing lists at once,
this hack might help:
  http://search.housegordon.org/

regards,
 -assaf