... GNU coding stadards suggest some thing and Microsoft coding standards suggest to create a pop up window....
Both are irrelevant for cdrtools. UNIX tradition is to send the output of a prg -help call to stderr. If yor shell does not support a pipe on stderr, it's time to look for a new shell. My shell (bsh) supports a pipe on stderr since 1985. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily