Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!smsc.sony.com!dce
From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need help with tbl
Keywords: tbl, Interactive
Message-ID: <1989Dec24.055952.3804@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 24 Dec 89 05:59:52 GMT
References: <15185@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
Lines: 24

In article <15185@well.UUCP> rhake@well.UUCP (Randall Hake) writes:
>The following error message pops up in either case:
>
>     usage: /usr/bin/tbl [-T X] [--] [file] ... [-]

I can't help with the problem (sounds like a broken command to me),
but if you do call the company, ask them to fix their usage message.

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't there something wrong here?  I mean,
according to convention, anything inside of [] (and some others,
depending upon vendor) is optional, and everything else is generally
required.

The above says that you have to at least type (literally)

	tbl ...

If they mean multiple "file" arguments, shouldn't that be [file...],
or do I have the convention wrong?
-- 
David Elliott
dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce
(408)944-4073
"But Pee Wee... I don't wanna be the baby!"