Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Mar 1999 08:10:47 GMT


Followup to: <19990327211331.C23438@hazel.buici.com>
By author: Oscar Levi <elf@buici.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Clever. It is hard to argue with the elegance of your implementation.
> It is equally tough to argue against the utility of
>
> true --version
>
> reporting its source.
>

Actually it is: true and false are supposed to IGNORE their command
lines. I consider "true --help" and "true --version" to be BUGS.

-hpa

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