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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c 
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:28:30 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote:

> > >  Make "ifconfig" with no arguments equivalent to "ifconfig -a".
> 
> Please back this out.
> Getting a usage() message is just too useful.

If that's your only reason, I don't think it's good enough.  I think
"the UNIX way" to get usage() out of a program is ``progname -?''.
Starting a program you don't know how to drive without arguments and
hoping for usage isn't always such a hot idea.

If there are other reasons, you should raise them.

The only concrete reason I can think of is that the job doesn't seem to
have been finished properly.  But that can be fixed by going forwards,
not backwards.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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