On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:47:24PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Justin Pryzby writes: > > It occurs to me that help output to stderr is arguably appropriate if an > > invalid option is given > > But '--help' is not an invalid option. > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for either --help or invalid options. Not always GNU rules are followed appropriately. -- Francesco P. Lovergine