On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:58:16PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Dickman <didick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > posix commands (like ls(1) for example) keep the last option when mutually
> > exclusive options are specified.
> > does it make sense to keep rcs consistent with that convention? also is a
> > man page diff needed?
>
> RCS predates POSIX and does not follow the POSIX utility argument
> guidelines multiple ways. Changing OpenRCS to follow those guidelines
> would make it incompatible with GNU RCS and the the deployed base of
> scripts...and fingers...
>
>
> Philip Guenther
Agreed,
-Otto
