Subject: Re: bin/16834
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/06/2002 20:28:41
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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:24:55PM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Jason R. Fink wrote:
> > > But isn't it convenient?=20
> >=20
> > I am sure it is, so, I guess my question is,
> > if we add an option to a utility that is conformant,
> > does that break conformance? If it doesn't, then I will
> > play with adding -v and get the PR closed.
>=20
> 'Conforms' means that options which are in standard are implemented
> in our utility, and that they work according to standard. You can
> add additional flags and stay conformant.
>=20
> cp -v would be handy occassionally.

Please enlighten me...

Wouldn't a script expecting a standard-conforming cp expect that
``cp -v foo'' copies the file ``-v'' to the file ``foo'' ?

	-is

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