Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 20:55:20 -0500

In message <ADBGi_saFO@khim.sch57.msk.ru>, "Khimenko Victor" writes:
+-----
| In <7dko67$3uf$1@palladium.transmeta.com> H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
| wrote:
| > Actually it is: true and false are supposed to IGNORE their command
| > lines. I consider "true --help" and "true --version" to be BUGS.
|
| Hmmm.... Why tru and false should ignore their coomand lines ? If you want
| something to be ignored then why to supply it's at all ?
+--->8

Because that way you can substitute "true" for a command to stub it out
(useful in e.g. Makefiles).

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