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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions


From: Thomas Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:09:51 -0700 (PDT)

    > From: Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden>

    > > > At the end of the day, I suspect code talks well enough that a
    > > > pika-escape-removing, null-termination-adding _option_ (say, perhaps,
    > > > "-0" comes to mind :) would be acceptable.

    > > Tom seems to have an intense dislike for short options that are digits, 
so it
    > > may not be.

    > I don't know why, but I'm feeling really infurated this morning,
    > and not for the first time...


Can't you use a filter program to generate the output format you want
from the output format provided?

`tar' needs such an option because, otherwise, it has no unambiguous
output format.  `tla' uses a different way to provide unambiguous
output.

-t




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