Chris Pickett <pkchris at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Personally, I think --man, --html and --nroff and such is a dangerous
> > precedent to set.
>
> What about --help and --version? Do you object to those options, too?
> Would you drop your concerns if Roland would rename --man to
> --extended-help?
-help is nothing new. It was introduced in 1981 by a UNIX clone called "UNOS".
All my software implements -help since 1982 ;-)
I habe no problem with -man in case that the related text is inside a shared
library that my be omitted for smaller platforms like WLAN Base stations or
DSL routers. If yourse the program still needs to work otherwise in case that
the library with the documentation text is not present.
J?rg
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