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In-Reply-To: <200007200728.IAA09150@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Jul 20, 2000 08:28:16 am"
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> > Others have contradicted this view.  But maybe we should think of a
> > consistent way to do it.  I've always done something like 'foo
> > -fdsafds' to force a usage message.  Maybe -? should be acceptable,
> > since it's what people will expect.
> 
> Heh :-)
> 
> hak:~ $ ls -fdsafds
> 4 .

I wonder what command groks my favorite for getting usage:

gndrsh:rgrimes {338}% ls -usage
ls: illegal option -- e
usage: ls [-ACFHLPRTWacdfgikloqrstu1] [file ...]


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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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