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From: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <10302@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 88 22:05:13 GMT
References: <12908@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science
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Summary: help command

In article <12908@brl-adm.ARPA>, bzs%bu-cs.bu.edu@buita.bu.edu (Barry Shein) writes:
> 
> But that's my whole point, this guarantees that "-help" is out of
> band, no one can complain. But I'm not hung up on that, if someone has
> a better non-meta char idea I'm all ears, -H comes to mind, or even -=
> that's almost suggestive ("what do the - things equal?")

How about:

	usage command

This is guaranteed to work no matter what the command usage is
and only requires the addition of a new command.  If someone is
competent enough to type -usage then this should be just as easy.
It even takes fewer characters to type than command -usage.

Seriously, the -= sounds like a good idea, I'm going to use it
until something better comes along.
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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems and Ohio State University
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