I found some errors in the table of long options in the GNU coding standard at:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html Old text: `file' `-f' in info, gawk, Make, mt, and tar; `-n' in sed; `-r' in touch. New text: `file' `-f' in info, gawk, sed, make, mt, and tar. `reference' `-r' file to use as timestamp source in touch. Explanation: * The option to specify a script file in sed(1) is -f, same as for gawk, make, etc. sed's -n option does something else. * Also, make(1) is misspelled. It should be lower case. * Finally, the long option name for touch(1)'s -r option is --reference. touch doesn't have a --file option, The cause of the confusion is probably that the argument to -r is a file. -ic -- Iain Calder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Toronto, Canada
