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From: Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP <lyndon@orthanc.com>
Subject: Re: bin/1139: uname.1 and uname.c disagree about display ordering 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1139; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP <lyndon@orthanc.com>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
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Subject: Re: bin/1139: uname.1 and uname.c disagree about display ordering 
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:39:34 -0700

 >>>>> "Marc" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@ki.net> writes:
 
     Marc> 	I may be missing the point here, but option ordering
     Marc> doesn't seem to make any difference:
 
 Read the source and you'll see why.
 
     Marc>      -a Behave as though the options -m, -n, -r, -s, and -v
     Marc> were speci- fied.
 
     Marc> 	It doesn't say in what order, just that it will behave
     Marc> as if all were specified.
 
 True, but the implication (as I read it) is that things will come out
 in the documented order.
 
 Your comments point out another bug - the output should match the option
 ordering specified on the command line.
 
 --lyndon