command line options

[Michael T Sullivan]

In article <1988Apr13.164952.646 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > But using -? only _has_ to say that -? is a bad option.  You are relying
>
> How do you propose to get around this?  There is no way to force the
> programmer to supply useful error messages.

I never said there was a way around it.  I just wanted to interject into
this discussion that whatever one uses to get a usage message, be it -?,
-:, -@, or -HELP isn't necessarily going to get a useful error message
with every program.  That's all.

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