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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
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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