On Jul 18, 2005, at 6:07 PM, UNIX admin wrote:
Am I the only one that doesn't like the
--something-or-other options
of GNU related software? Please don't do this to
Solaris!
No, you're not the only one. --options are completely uneccessary
and serve no purpose.
I sincerely hope such perversions will not be done to Solaris and
OpenSolaris.
If I'm completely mistaken, the --options were conceived at a time
when the GNU system was thought at some point to be able to mimic the
function of the CMD JSYS of TOPS-20. In that context I think the
long options made sense. That never really materialised except that
some shells try to do it themselves (like PCL did on TOPS-20 I guess)
rather than being integrated in the commands.
Krister
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