Barry Margolin writes: > I think the answer to his general question, then, is that it would > take an enormous amount of work to get all commands to be consistent > this way. There are lots of commands that work on similar kinds of > data, and they each have options that are specific to what they do, as > well as some options that are more general. Reconciling all of these, > including dealing with some of the conflicts (especially with > traditional single-letter options) would be a huge undertaking.
It would also be impossible to do so without breaking existing scripts. -- John Hasler [email protected] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
