command line options

Michael T Sullivan sullivan at vsi.UUCP
Wed Apr 13 06:13:59 AEST 1988


In article <7634 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> 
> You miss the point; -? already has the desired property; it does not

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 (none of mine do, of course :-).

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