On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Dickman <didick...@gmail.com> wrote: > posix commands (like ls(1) for example) keep the last option when mutually > exclusive options are specified. > does it make sense to keep rcs consistent with that convention? also is a man > page diff needed?
RCS predates POSIX and does not follow the POSIX utility argument guidelines multiple ways. Changing OpenRCS to follow those guidelines would make it incompatible with GNU RCS and the the deployed base of scripts...and fingers... Philip Guenther