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Date:      Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:15:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc:        bv@wjv.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007232314140.1415-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007191955100.95155-100000@overlord.e-gerbil.net>

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
> 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

Uh...  When commands are faced with insufficiently specific user input
they should stop everything and ask the user what they really want.

Seems to lend itself to consistancy and is well thought out to boot.

I'm against all this "but Linux/NT/foo does it this way!" nonesense.

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