Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:08:52 -0400 From: clark@pharlap.com (Clark Jarvis) To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" Message-ID: <20000724140207670.AAA249@sugar.pharlap.com@clark> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007232314140.1415-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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In <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007232314140.1415-100000@sasami.jurai.net>, on 07/23/00 at 10:15 PM, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> said: >On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote: >> I don't think the arguement is to make it "like linux", I think the >> arguement is that "classic unix" behavior is wrong and inconsistant >> with a well thought out design. :P >Uh... When commands are faced with insufficiently specific user input >they should stop everything and ask the user what they really want. >Seems to lend itself to consistancy and is well thought out to boot. Yeah, but *NIX _isn't_ consistent. Witness the different, although all defendably valid behaviors of mount, arp, and route. Mount dumps all with no arguments, arp allows "-a" to get all ARP entries, but route doesn't provide any way to get the entire routing table. -- Clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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