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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <1988Apr13.164952.646@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 88 16:49:52 GMT

> 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...

How do you propose to get around this?  There is no way to force the
programmer to supply useful error messages.
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"Noalias must go.  This is           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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