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From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: docs/62909: missing information in tail and head manpages
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Synopsis: missing information in tail and head manpages

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: schweikh
State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 16 10:01:23 PST 2004
State-Changed-Why: 
This is intentional. The -number behavior is deprecated and kept
for compatibility reasons. POSIX requires -n number. To quote from
SUSv3: "The obsolescent -number form is withdrawn."

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62909