Re: A simple hate today.

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From: spc (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner)
Subject: Re: A simple hate today.
Date: 19:30 on 25 May 2006
It was thus said that the Great H.Merijn Brand once stated:
> 
> On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:53:56 -0500 (CDT), sabrina downard <sld@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > If you do not have a better use for -h, and you have coded a usage 
> > statement for --help, then how damned difficult would it be to make -h 
> > equal to --help?  Since you're already going to print a damned error 
> > telling me to use --help instead?
> 
> Sorry, I disagree. And I have never liked -h to be help.
> IMHO it should be either -? or --help, and -help could be acceptable

  Notice she said "if you do not have a better use for -h."  

  Me?  The stuff I write will print a help message if any options given
aren't supported.  But I agree with Sabrina:

	GenericUnixPrompt> mv -h
	mv: invalid option -- h
	Try `mv --help' for more information.

  Um?  Okay, it's an invalid switch.  You detected it's an invalid switch. 
You printed an error as such. 

  -spc (What I hate is when the man page says "Use info")




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