"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > 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.
Yes it can. If anybody wants portability beyond FreeBSD, they'll be using sort ./+N for their filenames. How many successful widely distributed OS's are there that does not allow sort +N as a numeric argument by default? (I'm sure somebody can dig up an obscure linux distribution or some microcontroller OS or something, I'm talking about something on the scale of redhat or solaris or something) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
