Re: OT Required Options?
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:10:53PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
> > Martin writes:
> >> Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which
> >> can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is
> >> provided to them.
> >
> > That's true of Unix and Linux as well.
>
> Can you cite a Unix or GNU/Linux command line program which has this
> property? I cannot think of even one, but maybe that's just my lack of
> imagination. :)
It's a question of definition, I suppose, but try "dpkg" or "tar"
and see what they say. Okay, you can call the missing things
commands, but they themselves call them options.
>
> Anyway, it appears to be much more common in the Windows world. But as
> I said, I have no experience with Microsoft Windows whatsoever and just
> got this information from Google.
>
> Martin
>
>
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