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From: jms@romana.tymnet.com (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: rdist
Keywords: Software
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Date: 14 Mar 90 04:51:15 GMT
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In article <5523@brazos.Rice.edu> fitz@dirt.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 67, message 11
>rdist has what I would consider a significant flaw.

The man page for rdist is definitely flawed.

>install -bv ;  -- the result was that rdist started INSTALLING files in /-bv

That one killed me as well.   It put everything in /-Ry.  Bug in rdist
manual: Nowhere does it say that each option needs to have its own hyphen.
"-Ry" does not work, "-R -y" does.  Bug in the rdist program:  It should
accept consecutive option letters appended to a single hyphen.  Bug in the
built-in usage message: It says "r" instead of "R", and the "D" option is
not mentioned in the man page.  (Debugging?)

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