From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 27 16:14:52 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FA137B419; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:14:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C76F878306; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:44:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:44:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Barcroft Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/uuencode uuencode.1 src/usr.bin/uudecode uudecode.c Message-ID: <20020128104442.M72512@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200201271821.g0RILN284192@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201272309.g0RN9R599282@green.bikeshed.org> <20020127182308.D10222@espresso.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020127182308.D10222@espresso.q9media.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 27 January 2002 at 18:23:08 -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Brian F. Feldman writes: >> Mike Barcroft wrote: >>> mike 2002/01/27 10:21:23 PST >>> >>> Modified files: >>> usr.bin/uuencode uuencode.1 >>> usr.bin/uudecode uudecode.c >>> Log: >>> Add -o option (POSIX.1-2001) to uudecode(1). Deprecate the -p option >>> (which allows one to redirect output to stdout); `-o /dev/stdout' is >>> recommended instead. >>> >>> Submitted by: Joseph Mallett >>> MFC after: 2 weeks >> >> How about `-o -'? > > "In early drafts, the [-o outfile] option-argument allowed the use of > - to mean standard output. The symbol - has only been used previously > in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 as a standard input indicator. The developers > of the standard did not wish to overload the meaning of - in this > manner. The /dev/stdout concept exists on most modern systems. The > /dev/stdout syntax does not refer to a new special file. It is just > a magic cookie to specify standard output." > --POSIX.1-2001 God, that's ugly. What was wrong with -p? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message