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From: janc@uofm-cv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Re: thousands of input flags in one - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 13:35:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 13:35:32 1983
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It seems like the best way to add a verbose option to Unix would be to
have a standard $VERBOSE environment variable that would let you set the
help level given by all commands.  Level 0 would be normal ultra-terse
Unix, 1 would ask permission to clobber files and so on, 2 would give you
helpful hints and suggestions.

This seems better than having to tell each command individually how much
help you want, though there should be a way to override the environment help
level locally.

						Jan D. Wolter
						University of Michigan