>Depending on the presence of "-" isn't novel. Other OSes have done >this before. Inspecting the options in a presumed-BSD-ish list and >reverting to SVR4 behavior if an unexpected option is seen _is_ new, >and it's what caused both Garrett and me to say something.
I understand. Clearly, I wanted a proposal which worked for me :-) And I'm happy you're all on board. (I like both "ps -ef" and "ps uxga", and I want it to work wherever my $PATH points to) Casper