Comments on UNIX command option syn

[preece at ccvaxa.UUCP]

One very good reason for requiring names to be longer than 1 character
is that it reserves one character names to the user for personal
aliases.

I don't have any great objection to these rules except that the
rules requiring options to come before operands and disallowing
ordering of options are going to require large changes in the
command lines for common utilities (e.g., sort).  I suppose the
last line of defence is always to bundle the command line up as a
single argument and ship it down to the program for parsing.

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scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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