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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 1996 14:09:50 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, bde@zeta.org.au
Subject:   Re: Anyone mind if I remove the following braindamage from test(1)?
Message-ID:  <199609022109.OAA03052@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <2920.841647977@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 2, 96 00:06:17 am

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> I'd expect that to hold true only if the argument was not a flag
> argument which required a parameter, then I'd expect it to puke.  This
> would also help to quickly find instances where you'd undefined a
> necessary variable in the source tree, instead of giving a cryptic
> error message like:  ``usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRr] file ...''

I agree; a flag isn't an argument, it's a flag.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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