Re: found a bug in head

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report!

Unfortunately, Debian's woody is still based on textutils-2.0, even
though that version is quite old -- it's been almost 3(!) years.
The latest is textutils-2.0.21, and head from that package
no longer has the bug you report.  There have been many other
bug fixes and improvements since August, 1999.

Tamagucci <address@hidden> wrote:
> the bug I found is very simple to explain:
> address@hidden:~$ echo|head -08
> head: 08: number of lines is so large that it is not representable
...

> I'm using a debian woody, but I found that this bug
> is present even in the 2.0 original source code.