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From: crash@tsc3b21.UUCP (Colossus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <260@tsc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 12:17:28 GMT
References: <21426@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
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From article <21426@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein):
> I don't miss the point, I don't see the difficulty in fixing something
> that's broken:
> 
> 	if(strcmp(flag,"-help") == 0)
> 		return(usage()); /*usage() can be redefined by the programmer*/
> 
> I don't find the fact that -? (or -\? or '-?') happens to work
> wonderfully compelling, I guess you do, so we disagree.
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

But what if I have a file in my directory called "-help"???



Sorry, I just couldn't resist ;-) !!!

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