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- > some commands take arguments as
- >
- > command -abcdefg filename
- >
- > and some as
- >
- > command -a -b -c -d -e -f -g filename
- >
- > It would be great if this was standardised.
-
- Although commands like find will, I suppose always be renegades, doesn't
- conformity to getopt() for all future commands not explicitly excused from
- conformity by some ANSI committee take care of the problem? It seems that
- this is (or at least SHOULD be) simply a problem of living with history.
-
- By the way, I understand that the central concern of the committee is in
- the area of system calls, but aren't y'all going to have a subcommittee
- responsible for commands, shells, etc analogous to the C committee's
- "library" subcommittee? I would hope so.
-
- [ Would some more knowledgable P1003 committee member please comment
- on this? -mod]
-
- If this kind of stuff should be sent to ut-sally!std-unix instead of
- ut-sally!jsq, let me know.
-
- [ The convention I have adopted is that mail to ut-sally!std-unix
- is a submission to the newsgroup, while mail to ut-sally!jsq (or,
- better, ut-sally!std-unix-request) is mail about the newsgroup,
- though I may, as I did for this message, reply with a request
- for permission to post. -mod]
-
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