From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jul 23 20:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7190837B7B1 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA15905; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:15:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:15:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Richard A. Steenbergen" Cc: bv@wjv.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" In-Reply-To: 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, 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. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message