From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jul 19 16:56:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from overlord.e-gerbil.net (e-gerbil.net [207.91.110.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DD337B84B for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ras@e-gerbil.net) Received: from localhost (ras@localhost) by overlord.e-gerbil.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA65942; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:56:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ras@e-gerbil.net) X-Authentication-Warning: overlord.e-gerbil.net: ras owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:56:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" To: bv@wjv.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" In-Reply-To: <200007192351.TAA96891@mail.wanlogistics.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 bv@wjv.com wrote: > > Is it just me, who thinks this? > > I think retaining the classic Unix behaviour with no arguments giving useage > options is the way it should be. That keeps the consitancy. > > Changing the standard design to match other OSes implementation is a > step in the wrong direction. 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 -- Richard A Steenbergen http://www.e-gerbil.net/humble PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message