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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <4180@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 12 Apr 88 20:57:23 GMT
References: <12908@brl-adm.ARPA> <10302@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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|Seriously, the -= sounds like a good idea

I think EVERY command that gets a wrong set of options ought to
report the proper "usage: ......." as an error.

Face it - you will never get a consistent mechanism - as long as
people write code.
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	Bruce G. Barnett 	<barnett@ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett@steinmetz.UUCP>
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