From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 21:11:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF14610656D0 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f217.google.com (mail-bw0-f217.google.com [209.85.218.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FCD8FC1E for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so649703bwz.43 for ; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:11:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=w+5aBrcrkyHBJUPef1ZF5k3Jb+QY80gf8M5CJlIMM+8=; b=aG6VNj6BcS8MfHaSdiGviMvTBBVkDuV9rdhKK+e1Xt0mrryftme8BKBOJEqNTGhQZA 5+0dNv//bLv3m5JgGAcGwnquY2XKlswj2S5XQbsUOF7HvKT7Xnqpi96j3ylfcbg6AP32 GjbzoQLAjq5SFkdt1bSihWUR/8vlWvmbW248U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mBrD04tHbR5wmK0aOQ/qxS0cZptnXkiCK/cIN/I4MNWwi6ygrrzS8Xtn6xhwuTppA8 tDxm1wgRiWPEn5UtP/3eKfg1KP5wEcucdl5Yb7WK/IQeQSRCp14+DkOx80WcJplcp3jX J1BJ53YLGJcbeVavMcIFLAjcJCn6PERm4FHM0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.60.72 with SMTP id o8mr3522480bkh.210.1244236283318; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:11:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090605205507.GA19307@saltmine.radix.net> References: <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> <200906051208.43135.kirk@strauser.com> <20090605205507.GA19307@saltmine.radix.net> From: Chris Rees Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:11:00 +0100 Message-ID: To: Thomas Dickey Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:11:25 -0000 2009/6/5 Thomas Dickey : > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:49:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >GNU recommended: >> > >> >$ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz >> > >> >Seriously, why are long options encouraged? >> > >> there are people that like to write a lot? ;) > > no..., otherwise the people generating this thread would cite realistic > examples, rather than writing a lot. > The point I was trying to make (badly), was that long options are a PITA to type. I don't believe it's any easier to learn the long names for options than the short ones. Since you're typing huge amounts of text quickly, you're more likely to make mistakes, and you'll probably forget them anyway. So, instead of looking up short options in the man page, I am then reduced to riffling through the info tome, to find the long option that I've forgotten. No really, I do forget long options. A lot. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?