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Unstandard?
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Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Unstandard? |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:36:12 -0400 (EDT) |
Does the following fail the GNU standards?
# /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/movemail --help
/usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/movemail: invalid option -- -
According to
Standards for Command Line Interfaces
(standards.info)Command-Line Interfaces
All programs should support two standard options: `--version' and
`--help'.
A different movemail, not distributed with Emacs, shows this
# /usr/bin/movemail --help
Usage: movemail [-rvxkh] [-l lines ] [-m method ] [-i]
inbox [-o] destfile [[-p] POP-password]
where method is one of: dot, lockf, flock
Default is: dot
although it fails with --version
# /usr/bin/movemail --version
/usr/bin/movemail: unrecognized option `--version'
>From this morning's (2007 Mar 24) update of both Debian testing and
CVS Emacs:
# ls -al /usr/bin/movemail
26 2007-03-01 13:01 /usr/bin/movemail -> /etc/alternatives/movemail
# ls -al /etc/alternatives/movemail
55228 2007-03-22 06:04 /etc/alternatives/movemail
# ls -al /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/movemail
45949 2007-03-18 12:08 /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/movemail
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