On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:16:16 +0200, Juerd <[email protected]> wrote:

> H.Merijn Brand skribis 2006-05-25 21:14 (+0200):
> > % diff -?
> > diff: invalid option -- ?
> > diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
> > Exit 2
> 
>     % touch -- -@
>     % diff -?
>     diff: invalid option -- @
>     diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
>     Exit 2

These folk know how to please us:

% pdftotext --help
pdftotext version 3.00
Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
Usage: pdftotext [options] <PDF-file> [<text-file>]
  -f <int>          : first page to convert
  -l <int>          : last page to convert
  -layout           : maintain original physical layout
  -raw              : keep strings in content stream order
  -htmlmeta         : generate a simple HTML file, including the meta 
information
  -enc <string>     : output text encoding name
  -eol <string>     : output end-of-line convention (unix, dos, or mac)
  -nopgbrk          : don't insert page breaks between pages
  -opw <string>     : owner password (for encrypted files)
  -upw <string>     : user password (for encrypted files)
  -q                : don't print any messages or errors
  -cfg <string>     : configuration file to use in place of .xpdfrc
  -v                : print copyright and version info
  -h                : print usage information
  -help             : print usage information
  --help            : print usage information
  -?                : print usage information


-- 
H.Merijn Brand        Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x  on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11,
& 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin.       http://qa.perl.org
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/           http://www.test-smoke.org
                       http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

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