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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!network.ucsd.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Subject: Re: PLEA across the board. Message-ID: <1993Apr22.001412.23371@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Keywords: version information Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada References: <jmonroyC5rz7x.LA1@netcom.com> <1993Apr21.200507.7489@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 00:14:12 GMT Lines: 22 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.