begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:26:37PM -0700: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 1:50 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > Querying the user and asking "Do you want to proceed anyway (Y/n)?" > > seems more productive. ?Didn't programs _used_ to do that sort of > > thing? > > That's not the Unix Way(tm).
True. The UNIX Way[tm] would be to check for -i on the command line and then if none were found to go ahead and try to do with the user told you to do and if it didn't work, that's the user's problem, so long as an error code was produced. -Stewart "Perhaps with a 'I failed to do X' on stderr" Stremler
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