On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:50:10AM +0100, Pascal J.Bourguignon wrote: > $ cmucl --help > ; Loading #p"/local/users/pascal/.cmucl-init.lisp". > Warning: #<Command Line Switch "-help"> is an illegal switch > CMU Common Lisp 18d, running on thalassa > Send questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Since it says to send questions here: > > - What are the command-line options of cmucl? > (they don't appear in the man page and cmucl itself is not helpful).
The lisp(1) man-page is for the actual binary (and does give command line options); the cmucl(1) man-page is more of a system overview. (It might, of course, be a good idea to implement a --help command line option for CMUCL. ext::*legal-cmd-line-switches* is probably a good place to start.) > Even ed(1) which is famous for its terseness gives: > > $ ed --help > Usage: ed [OPTION]... [FILE] > > -G, --traditional use a few backward compatible features > -p, --prompt=STRING use STRING as an interactive prompt > -s, -, --quiet, --silent suppress diagnostics > --help display this help > --version output version information > > Start edit by reading in FILE if given. Read output of shell command > if FILE begins with a `!'. That'll be GNU ed. Try, for example, a FreeBSD ed for terseness. Regards, 'mr -- [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_
