Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:42:47 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump dump.8 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107171705130.64858-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200107170329.f6H3TUo38730@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <11101.995298095@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes: > : > That's what I asked some months ago, but then somebody pointed me at > : > style(9), near the end: > : > > : > "usage: f [-aDde] [-b b_arg] [-m m_arg] req1 req2 [opt1 [opt2]]\n" > : > "usage: f [-a | -b] [-c [-dEe] [-n number]]\n" > : > > : > So it seems it's more like -[0-9][AaBbCcDd...Zz], which also makes > : > sense, e.g. when -D overrides/negates -d. > : > : I wonder whether this section of style(9) predates the CSRG sources. > > I think might be Bruce's personal preference. I know that he's made > suggestions like that to me many times over the years. It is just what most BSD utilities actually do. Including old ones like dump(8). Dima's change was just to fix unsorting in FreeBSD changes (mainly for mismerging Lite2 in rev.1.13). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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