[debbugs-tracker] bug#11020: closed (man page Tail : last -> most recent? )

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #11020,
regarding man page Tail : last -> most recent? 
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> man page Tail : last -> most recent? 
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> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:23:07 +0100
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux)
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> Hello,
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> I just happen to notice an extra space in the man page of tail between
> Print and the
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> "Print  the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output"
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> that is in the man page of the tail application included in Debian
> Linux.
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> But, more importantly:
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> Print the most recent 10 lines of each FILE to standard output ....
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> Kind greetings
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> Gijs Hillenius
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> Afternoon very favorable for romance.  Try a single person for a change.
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> Re: bug#11020: man page Tail : last -> most recent?
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> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:22:00 -0700
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686;	rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2
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> On 03/16/2012 12:14 AM, Gijs Hillenius wrote:
> > I figured "most recent" would clearify that in a brief manner, but it
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> Yes, it's hard to write clear and brief usage messages
> and sometimes there just isn't any good solution.
> Anyway, I'm closing out this bug report for now.
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