Re: R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Dave Korn
Marco Atzeri wrote: > --- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel ha scritto: >> I get an error: >> tail: cannot open '+3' for reading: No such file or >> directory. >> >> Is this on purpose or an accident? > probably, the last > > $ tail --version > tail (GNU coreutils) 7.0 > > don't accept any mor

Re: R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Julio Costa
Hi Roland, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:15, Roland Schwingel wrote: > Hi Marco, > > Thanks for your reply. > Quoted e-mail edited; please see http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > Marco Atzeri wrote on 28.10.2009 12:05:09: >> --- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel  ha scritto: >> >> the manual

Re: R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Roland Schwingel
Hi Marco, Thanks for your reply. Marco Atzeri wrote on 28.10.2009 12:05:09: > --- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel ha scritto: > > > Hi... > > > > At present I am using cygwin 1.5 mainly, but I have also > > started to migrate over to 1.7. Everything works quite well, > > but I encountered a pro

R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel ha scritto: > Hi... > > At present I am using cygwin 1.5 mainly, but I have also > started to migrate over to 1.7. Everything works quite well, > but I encountered a problem with the tail command. Obviously > the + syntax does no longer work in 1.7 > > In 1.5

Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Roland Schwingel
Hi... At present I am using cygwin 1.5 mainly, but I have also started to migrate over to 1.7. Everything works quite well, but I encountered a problem with the tail command. Obviously the + syntax does no longer work in 1.7 In 1.5 when I call eg. tail +3 /path/to/some/file I get the whole