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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 17:08:19 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
Cc:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1
Message-ID:  <p0511174fb8ff434ebd81@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20020508130458.B72921@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200205080304.g4834BL42647@green.bikeshed.org> <p0511174bb8ff15c41118@[128.113.24.47]> <20020508130458.B72921@dragon.nuxi.com>

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At 1:04 PM -0700 5/8/02, David O'Brien wrote:
>[Bogus From: address, because people cannot be bothered to respect
>Reply-To:]
>
>On Wed, May 08, 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  > This then suggests we need two command-flags, one which
>  > always takes an argument and one which never takes one.
>
>Why do we need to waste two flags on this functionality?
>IF we are not going to accurately follow perl, then require
>"-i" to have an argument.

Oh. Yes, that would be fine with me too.  I thought
someone had argued that '-i' must not have an argument.
That was OK with me, but I'm equally happy to have just
the one flag instead of two.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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