Greetings.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:03:45 +0200 "Galos, David" <galos...@students.rowan.edu> 
wrote:
> > Your  proposed  changes  are applied.
> Glad I could help!
> 
> > I still have to insist on checking
> > the right side of »end« to be checked for length.
> >        % seq 5 -1 1.0000
> > should  show four digits to thr right.
> 
> I agree that this is sensible behavior. GNU seq doesn't do that,
> but since when has "GNU does it" been a good argument for
> anything?

GNU  defined a meta standard for some years which we should use the good
parts from and leave out the crap. There have been reasons why  the  GNU
standard  was adopted, but now the problems of that movement are too ob‐
vious for being ignored.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann


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