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To: Vlad Skvortsov <vlad@high.net.ru>
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Subject: Re: crontab option letters are too close on the keyboard 
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:42:07 -0500
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
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>	I wonder if crontab option -r is, err, standard/widely used in
>	different unices than FreeBSD ?

At a quick glance I see -r exists in HPUX, SunOS, and IRIX, so I guess
the answer is yes.

>	If no, may be it would better to change it to, for example, -R ? I've
>	had situation when having pressed 'r' instead of 'e' (they are
>	close!) I had lost my crontab ...

Well you have a good point but it seems to be too late for that.
Recover it from your backup tape.  Older unixes I've used did not have
-e, so I've become used to doing:

crontab -l >/tmp/ct
vi /tmp/ct
crontab /tmp/ct

Maybe that's a good thing.

-Mitch


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