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- From: kingdon@ai.mit.edu (Jim Kingdon)
-
- My recommendation for years has been that vendor additions be confined
- to upper case, leaving lower case options for the (gradually growing)
- standard environment.
-
- But this way every time an option gets standardized, all
- implementations and users have to change. This does not accord with
- "minimal changes to existing practice". Long options (e.g. "ls +all
- +format long" (or "ls +all +fo l" if those abbreviations are
- unambigous) instead of "ls -al"), however, are less likely to conflict
- with each other, so this is the way to go particularly for options
- not used interactively or options rarely used.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 40
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