command line options
Lawrence V. Cipriani
lvc at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Tue Apr 12 08:05:13 AEST 1988
In article <12908 at brl-adm.ARPA>, bzs%bu-cs.bu.edu at buita.bu.edu (Barry Shein) writes:
>
> But that's my whole point, this guarantees that "-help" is out of
> band, no one can complain. But I'm not hung up on that, if someone has
> a better non-meta char idea I'm all ears, -H comes to mind, or even -=
> that's almost suggestive ("what do the - things equal?")
How about:
usage command
This is guaranteed to work no matter what the command usage is
and only requires the addition of a new command. If someone is
competent enough to type -usage then this should be just as easy.
It even takes fewer characters to type than command -usage.
Seriously, the -= sounds like a good idea, I'm going to use it
until something better comes along.
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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems and Ohio State University
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