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Re: Screensaver support for the Hurd console


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: Screensaver support for the Hurd console
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:06:28 +0100

   That said, I don't think that just reusing --help and --version is
   too confusing,

I'd prefer to see a --driver-version=DRIVER and --driver-help=DRIVER
option.  "Overloading" --help/--version in this way is confusing for
users.  --help/--version means to get help about the command you are
running, not about some plugin or driver that is going to be used.

,----[ (standards)Command-Line Interfaces ]
| `--version'
|      This option should direct the program to print information about
|      its name, version, origin and legal status, all on standard
|      output, and then exit successfully.  Other options and arguments
|      should be ignored once this is seen, and the program should not
|      perform its normal function.
| ...
| `--help'
|      This option should output brief documentation for how to invoke the
|      program, on standard output, then exit successfully.  Other
|      options and arguments should be ignored once this is seen, and the
|      program should not perform its normal function.
`----




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