From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 20 10:31:58 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA2437B5E2; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (hak.nat.Awfulhak.org [172.31.0.12]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA81641; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:31:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04232; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:31:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200007201731.SAA04232@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn), obrien@FreeBSD.org, archie@FreeBSD.org (Archie Cobbs), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c In-Reply-To: Message from "Rodney W. Grimes" of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:27:43 PDT." <200007201727.KAA36657@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:31:26 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 ...] Easy: hak:~ $ test -usage hak:~ $ echo $? 0 > -- > Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net > -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message