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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: <7679@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:27:49 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP> <7634@brl-smoke.ARPA> <524@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <524@vsi.UUCP> sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
>But using -? only _has_ to say that -? is a bad option.  You are relying
>on the fact that all programs have good usage messages.

If you can't get a utility to provide a helpful usage message when you
specify an incorrect option, you probably can't get it to provide such
a message at all.  I know of no way to force utilities to provide such
help, but a thoughtful implementor will do his best in this regard.