Bob Fry wrote: > As a former user of Solaris and sometimes user of Linux or cygwin, I'm > puzzled by the continued lack of consistency in the options and > features of commands. As an example, "join" does not understand a > numeric field sort. Surely it would not be difficult to add this as > an option, but it remains much the way it was decades ago.
Could you present a concrete example of that lack of consistency? > I understand the desire for continuity but couldn't a new set of > commands be employed with a flag to use a modern, normalized set of > options? Gnu commands already have the long version but they seem to > mostly do the same thing as the old short version. What do you consider to be a "modern, normalized set of options"? Are you talking about the POSIX standard or some other way some program in Solaris accepts options? Rui Maciel _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
