Re: A simple hate today.

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: A simple hate today.
Date: 17:57 on 25 May 2006

* On 2006.05.25, in <20060525164600.GC9327@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xx.xx>,
*	"David Cantrell" <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote:
> 
> OTOH, you really want to know what the problem was, so something like
> this is needed first:
> 
>   ERROR: -h not recognised
> 
> and you really don't want that to scroll off the top of the screen when
> you then spew the help text, because the user isn't expecting that.

$ tool -h
usage: tool [--this] [--that] [args ...]

... Lots of superfluous information that shouldn't really be in a help ...
... text at all (this is a manual's job) and lasts for 29 screen pages....

-h: option not recognized.
$

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There's stuff above here

David Cantrell 17:46 on 25 May 2006
- David Champion 17:57 on 25 May 2006
peter (Peter da Silva) 19:38 on 25 May 2006
- Jarkko Hietaniemi 19:51 on 25 May 2006
Phil Pennock 13:13 on 26 May 2006
- David Champion 16:31 on 26 May 2006
  - Michael Ahlers 16:45 on 26 May 2006
  - Phil Pennock 16:52 on 26 May 2006
    - too deep to show

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