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--- Begin Message ---Package: iprint Version: 1.3-7 Severity: normal Manual says: man i | grep -n -A 1 "\-h" 22: i doesn't take any options, but invoking it with one of -h, --help 23- gives help by example. But 'i' parses the help switches as ASCII: % i --help 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' 104 0x68 0150 0b1101000 'h' 101 0x65 0145 0b1100101 'e' 108 0x6C 0154 0b1101100 'l' 112 0x70 0160 0b1110000 'p' % i -h 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' 104 0x68 0150 0b1101000 'h' Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages iprint depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries iprint recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---reopen 394813 ! thanks On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:53:11 +0200 Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > man i | grep -n -A 1 "\-h" > > 22: i doesn't take any options, but invoking it with one of > > -h, --help > > 23- gives help by example. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > But 'i' parses the help switches as ASCII:... > ... > This is exactly what is meant. The manpage says that the program > doesn't take any options, it indeed doesn't. However, if you specify > something (e.g. '--help') it should be pretty clear what happens > (hence the "by example"). Thanks for the speedy reply and simple explanation, which seems, unfortunately, not wholly satisfactory... Suggested fixes, either: 1) reword the man page to more accurately describe 'i', without distracting users with missing options, e.g. 'i' has no options, but invoking it with any arbitrary text string, such as "23skiddoo", "foobar", etc., would demonstrate how the program functions. 2) Make 'i' parse '-h' and '--help' to show some model usages and outputs. Notes: some experts may find it obvious what "by example" was intended to mean, but at least one less knowledgeable user (me) finds the man page simultaneously vague and overprecise. I say "vague" because "by example" customarily means a text display of an actual example, not a run of the program's main algorithm, what amounts to a demo by negative example. "Overprecise" because "one of..." implies that only those two options will provide such a demo, when almost any text string would do. Also, I had interpreted "doesn't take any options" as meaning "has no options other than '-h' or '--help'". HTH...
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