From: Dan Harkless <dan@harkless.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 20:34:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands got too cute and
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Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands got too cute and
had the option itself print out as "-(help)" in the -help output.  I guess the
idea was to make reference to the fact that clearly you know about the -help
option since you're currently looking at its output.  I think it's a bad idea to
overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're supposed to indicate
what abbreviated prefix of the switch you're allowed to specify.  It doesn't
make sense to show that you're allowed to "abbreviate" the switch to its entire
length.
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