On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 00:09, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > begin quote ---
> > XBD ERN 16 Utilities that have extensions violating the Utility Syntax
> > Guidelines Accept as marked.
> >
> >
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 00:09, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > begin quote ---
> > XBD ERN 16 Utilities that have extensions violating the Utility Syntax
> > Guidelines Accept as marked.
> >
> >
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 13:57, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It's no more legal or illegal than "head -42 foo".
>
> "head -42 foo" is explicitly disallowed by the guidelines.
> "head --lines 42 foo&qu
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:55, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Guideline 3 says "Multi-digit options should not be allowed."
> >> That's an explicit prohibition.
> >
> > I meant, where is --lines allowe
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 23:34, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:49, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > Well, so does the --lines option
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:49, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well, so does the --lines option.
>
> No, that uses an allowed extension. It's not prohibited, the way that
> multi-digit options are prohibited.
Where? You
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:44, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > a POSIX-conforming "head" program may
> > support a "-1" option. It may also support a
> > "-2" option, and so on.
>
> That
POSIX places requirements on both coreutils and
the coreutils users. POSIX-conforming users are
only allowed to use features that are part of the
POSIX standard. For coreutils, POSIX conformance
means that 100% of the standard is correctly
implemented.
In no way does the standard prohibit an imple
