command line options

[Bob Goudreau]

In article <12908 at brl-adm.ARPA> bzs%bu-cs.bu.edu at buita.bu.edu (Barry Shein) writes:
>>   What's wrong with using "-help" as a special case? 
>>
>>Gag, choke. Too verbose. Options are one character.
>
>But that's my whole point, this guarantees that "-help" is out of
>band, no one can complain. 

...Unless someone comes up with a command that allows 'h', 'e', 'l' and
'p' as boolean flags!

Perhaps 4.4BSD will add 'e' and 'h' as options to ls. :-) :-)

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