Inconsistent options

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From: David Cantrell
Subject: Inconsistent options
Date: 22:13 on 30 May 2006
Leafnode is a small simple NNRP server.  The two most important commands
it provides are texpire, which expires old messages out of the spool;
and fetchnews, which mutters at other news servers to exchange messages.
Both provide a -q option.  The docs say:

for texpire:
  Quiet. Print no messages unless problems occur. Cancels  preced-
  ing -v [verbose] options.

and for fetchnews:
  Be quiet. Suppresses some warnings. This flag cancels any previ-
  ously encountered -v [verbose] flags.

So while -v (and -vv, -vvv etc) mean the same for both, -q doesn't.  Or
at least, they're not documented to be the same.  So it's hateful either
way.

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David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator Of The World

I hate baby seals.  They get asked to all the best clubs.

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