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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:48:10 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who broke sort(1) ?
Message-ID:  <20020924204809.GA60957@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <20020923122935.A6108@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org>

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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> Oh man, this is going to suck.  There are thousands and thousands of third
> party scripts that use +n syntax.
> 
> I am most unhappy with this change. :-(

It will be possible to have both variants, but +N is valid filename per 
POSIX, so obsoleted syntax can't be supported.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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