* Hubert Chan writes:
>>>>>> "Emile" == Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...]
Emile> You could just as well argue that program that are primarily
Emile> intended to be ran from cron should be put somewhere other than
Emile> /bin, even though a user explicitly specifies himself that the
Emile> program must be run on his own behalf, and even though the
Emile> program follows normal exec()-style executable semantics. And
Emile> naturally, that's nonsense.
> Except that programs that are primarily run by cron still do something
> useful when run from the command line. You can logrotate, updatedb,
> etc. etc. before cron decides it's time to do it, just by running the
> programs on the command line, if you ever feel the need to.
> On the other hand, translators generally don't do anything useful when
> run from the command line, other than spitting out a warning message, as
> has been mentioned many times during this discussion, and it doesn't
> really make any sense to run them from the command line.
Other than getting some useful information about what options they
have and how they can be used via settrans.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /hurd/hello --help
Usage: hello [OPTION...]
A translator providing a warm greeting.
-c, --contents=STRING Specify the contents of the virtual file
-?, --help Give this help list
--usage Give a short usage message
-V, --version Print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional
for any corresponding short options.
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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