Re: Online Help

2001-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:10:33AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 28-Dec-2001 Chris Tillman wrote: > > That makes me uniquely qualified :-) to suggest some kind of > > standardization for online help be implemented in policy for console > > programs. > standards, everyone else just plays

Re: Online Help

2001-12-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Dec-2001 Chris Tillman wrote: > First, a caveat: I'm not a dd, and have only been involved with Debian > and Linux for around 8 months. > > That makes me uniquely qualified :-) to suggest some kind of > standardization for online help be implemented in policy for console > programs. > Thi

Re: Online Help

2001-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:00:51AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > However, some commands don't respond to this, others act as if the > --help was not present and do their function anyway. That violates the > don't-surprise-your-user software quality guideline, when so many > packages conform to the

Online Help

2001-12-28 Thread Chris Tillman
First, a caveat: I'm not a dd, and have only been involved with Debian and Linux for around 8 months. That makes me uniquely qualified :-) to suggest some kind of standardization for online help be implemented in policy for console programs. I've grown accustomed to typing --help first, before u