From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 19 11:55:45 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD0C37BFD9; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 077761C66; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:55:42 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Archie Cobbs , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c Message-ID: <20000719145541.W51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000719062830.A15133@dragon.nuxi.com> <2153.964014378@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <2153.964014378@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:46:18PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:46:18PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > If that's your only reason, I don't think it's good enough. I think > "the UNIX way" to get usage() out of a program is ``progname -?''. > Starting a program you don't know how to drive without arguments and > hoping for usage isn't always such a hot idea. progname -? is _not_ the UNIX way. I did this to a program once and was given many reasons why it was bad. they may be archived. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message