From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 24 7: 0:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sugar.pharlap.com (sugar.pharlap.com [192.107.36.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C6F37B842 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clark@pharlap.com) Received: from clark ([192.107.36.171]) by sugar.pharlap.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-56365U200L2S100V35) with SMTP id com for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:02:07 -0400 From: clark@pharlap.com (Clark Jarvis) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:08:52 -0400 To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: "ifconfig" == "ifconfig -a" X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.19zg/19zg Message-ID: <20000724140207670.AAA249@sugar.pharlap.com@clark> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In , on 07/23/00 at 10:15 PM, "Matthew N. Dodd" said: >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. Yeah, but *NIX _isn't_ consistent. Witness the different, although all defendably valid behaviors of mount, arp, and route. Mount dumps all with no arguments, arp allows "-a" to get all ARP entries, but route doesn't provide any way to get the entire routing table. -- Clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message