* On 2006.05.25, in <[email protected]>,
*       "David Cantrell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> OTOH, you really want to know what the problem was, so something like
> this is needed first:
> 
>   ERROR: -h not recognised
> 
> and you really don't want that to scroll off the top of the screen when
> you then spew the help text, because the user isn't expecting that.

$ tool -h
usage: tool [--this] [--that] [args ...]

... Lots of superfluous information that shouldn't really be in a help ...
... text at all (this is a manual's job) and lasts for 29 screen pages....

-h: option not recognized.
$

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