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--- Begin Message ---Package: iprint Version: 1.3-7 Severity: normal Manual says: man i | grep -n -A 1 "\-h" 22: i doesn't take any options, but invoking it with one of -h, --help 23- gives help by example. But 'i' parses the help switches as ASCII: % i --help 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' 104 0x68 0150 0b1101000 'h' 101 0x65 0145 0b1100101 'e' 108 0x6C 0154 0b1101100 'l' 112 0x70 0160 0b1110000 'p' % i -h 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' 104 0x68 0150 0b1101000 'h' Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages iprint depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries iprint recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, Thanks for your report. On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 05:13 -0400, A. Costa wrote: > man i | grep -n -A 1 "\-h" > 22: i doesn't take any options, but invoking it with one of -h, > --help > 23- gives help by example. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > But 'i' parses the help switches as ASCII: > > % i --help > 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' > 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' > 104 0x68 0150 0b1101000 'h' > 101 0x65 0145 0b1100101 'e' > 108 0x6C 0154 0b1101100 'l' > 112 0x70 0160 0b1110000 'p' > % i -h > 45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-' > 104 0x68 0150 0b1101000 'h' This is exactly what is meant. The manpage says that the program doesn't take any options, it indeed doesn't. However, if you specify something (e.g. '--help') it should be pretty clear what happens (hence the "by example"). Thijs
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