Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:15:07 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump dump.8 Message-ID: <20010716131506.D21211@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <11101.995298095@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:41:35PM %2B0200 References: <20010716182739.B56285@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <11101.995298095@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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> > > That's what I asked some months ago, but then somebody pointed me at > > style(9), near the end: > > > > "usage: f [-aDde] [-b b_arg] [-m m_arg] req1 req2 [opt1 [opt2]]\n" > > "usage: f [-a | -b] [-c [-dEe] [-n number]]\n" > > > > So it seems it's more like -[0-9][AaBbCcDd...Zz], which also makes > > sense, e.g. when -D overrides/negates -d. > > I wonder whether this section of style(9) predates the CSRG sources. Nope, I added it because style(9) was abigious on the topic. vi(1), od(1) do it this way (many other man pages implicitly go along with this). ls(1), su(1), sed(1) does it a totally different way lex(1), pax(1) does it a yet another totally different way -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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