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Re: trivial mkpasswd defect


On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:19:18AM -0400, Bernard A Badger wrote:
>In this (POSIX) example,
>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/getopt.html
>-? (or some other error such as -a and -b together) was the only way
>to generate the usage string.  The GNU standard is a bit more friendly,
>requiring a consistent error-free way to generate usage.
>
>Using --help (GNU required) or -h (AFAICS optional) should be considered
>successful, and should return 0.

Have you actually tried the latest version of the cygwin utilities?  The
cygwin snapshots contain the very latest version of things like 'mount'.
Joshua Daniel Franklin has expended considerable effort in regularizing
the output of the commands wrt --help and usage output.

cgf
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