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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <7634@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Apr 88 19:12:07 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <143@gsg.UUCP> lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew) writes:
-Why use '?' character?  I especially hate to type: command '-?' to avoid
-'?' to be expanded by shell.  In Bourne shell, if you dont have any file
-like: -a, -x then -? will work without quoting.  This is not true for csh.
-Choosing something that is not a special character might have less problem
-running on different environment.  How about -H instead?  Any program uses
--H beside sysline?

You miss the point; -? already has the desired property; it does not
have to be explicitly added to every application.  I'm sorry if you
choose to use a shell that makes this too difficult to type.