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From: sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <524@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 20:13:59 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP> <7634@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Summary: ? only as good as the error message

In article <7634@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> 
> You miss the point; -? already has the desired property; it does not

But using -? only _has_ to say that -? is a bad option.  You are relying
on the fact that all programs have good usage messages.  Some just say
"Bad option" and die (none of mine do, of course :-).

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