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From: goudreau@xyzzy.UUCP (Bob Goudreau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <770@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 08:20:54 GMT
References: <12908@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: goudreau@rtp48.UUCP (Bob Goudreau)
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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In article <12908@brl-adm.ARPA> bzs%bu-cs.bu.edu@buita.bu.edu (Barry Shein) writes:
>>   What's wrong with using "-help" as a special case? 
>>
>>Gag, choke. Too verbose. Options are one character.
>
>But that's my whole point, this guarantees that "-help" is out of
>band, no one can complain. 

...Unless someone comes up with a command that allows 'h', 'e', 'l' and
'p' as boolean flags!

Perhaps 4.4BSD will add 'e' and 'h' as options to ls. :-) :-)

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