On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:19:10AM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
> >Juan RP wrote:
> >>>- Most NetBSD utilities don't have '-h' for help, while this one does.
> >>
> >>Should "-h" be removed then?
> >
> >When you need help, man(1) is your friend. :-)
> >
> >I vote for removing '-h'.
> 
> I'm piping in without reading the sources, but sometimes a quick -h is
> more informative than a confusing man page. Sometimes I just need a
> reminder as to which flags to use (lsof and tcpdump come to mind). OK,
> so those aren't NetBSD utilities, but you get the idea.
> 
> I think newfs and disklabel or something were that way, too. I used the
> -h a lot this past week.

I tend to make the 'unknown option' output slightly more verbose than
is traditonal for (say) ls.  Then 'xyz -?' will give enough info to
let you work out which option you wanted.

	David

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