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Re: tail question


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: tail question
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:05:10 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
> You could set _POSIX2_VERSION on the GNU/Linux system to 199209.  From
> (coreutils)Standards conformance
...
>     The GNU utilities normally conform to the version of POSIX that is
>  standard for your system.  To cause them to conform to a different
...
>    If there are other areas of change I'd sure like to know.
>
> See the NEWS file; all user-visible changes are noted there.

Alfred, your quoting makes it hard to tell that the quote from the
previous message is not just another paragraph taken from the manual.
Could you use the customary ">" quoting?


paul




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