Re: head, tail

[Brad Allen]

From: Brad Allen <address@hidden>
Subject: head, tail
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 16:10:23 -0700 (PDT)

> I want my head anD tail programs to understand the option
>  head -20
>  tail -20
> without complaining.  I'd rather GNU head and tail do the same thing,
> so I don't have to modify the programs to not complain.  It takes
> too much typing to do longer options.
> 
> There is no reason to not accept typable options.

I made a mistake.  This is not your fault; this is Gentoo's fault.
They put in a bunch of warnings.  Apparently, you have an environment
variable that allows standard use, but Gentoo patched it to complain
if that's set.  They probably got confused by an additional Mandrake
patch (applied before Gentoo's) which makes the absence of another
environment variable cause standard behavoir.