On 29-Apr-2005, Bill Denney wrote:
| As someone who is more of a user, I'd think that if I give any options
| they would override the defaults, and it would be hard for me to debug if
| there were other default options that took effect when I gave options. If
| you keep the default options when specific options are used, it would be
| helpful to at least give a warning that the other options were used.
I agree, I think that if options are supplied, the default options
should not be used. Otherwise, I think we will have a lot of confused
users wondering why their files are compressed when they just
specified "-ascii".