Re: A simple hate today.

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: A simple hate today.
Date: 16:31 on 26 May 2006

* On 2006.05.26, in <20060526121357.GA6056@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Phil Pennock" <phil.pennock@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
> "-h" means "act on a symlink itself, rather than the file pointed to".
> "-H" means "follow symlinks pointing to directories, when traversing".
> etc etc.

Sure.  It also means "show me data quantities in pretty MG and GB and
TB values instead of large KB values", and it means "hostname" in a lot
of programs.  There are plenty of cases where it can't be used for help
now, but it doesn't all add up to "-h should never key in help."

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 -D.    dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx        NSIT    University of Chicago

There's stuff above here

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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