command line options

[Henry Spencer]

> But using -? only _has_ to say that -? is a bad option.  You are relying
> on the fact that all programs have good usage messages.  Some just say
> "Bad option" and die...

How do you propose to get around this?  There is no way to force the
programmer to supply useful error messages.
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