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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Re: PLEA across the board.
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Keywords: version information 
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 00:14:12 GMT
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In article <1993Apr21.200507.7489@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>In article <jmonroyC5rz7x.LA1@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
>> 
>>                A Plea follows to 386BSD developers
>>                -----------------------------------
>>like to propose that all linux authors and porters try to put a version
>>number in their binaries that can be called with -v, -V, -h or -?. It

>If typing "man" is "too cryptic", ln it to "help" on your system; if using
>"man" is too cryptic, archie for "help"... there are many excellent packages.
>To exaggerate a [very] little, every third Senior project is a help system.

	It also might be an idea to support the way GNU is doing it with their
programs these days (which I believe is POSIX motivated)---with the

--version flag.

	I would guess that this wouldn't break any current flags, and could
end up being rather benign to add.....

	Toodlepip!
	Marc 'em.