* 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. $ -- -D. [email protected] NSIT University of Chicago
