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#15 os9format / os9dump help argument consistency

2.4
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nobody
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2020-05-01
2002-12-16
No

Most of the other tools in the package will yield the help
message via os9 tool -h format will not. h is used for the
head entry. I would suggest hd or d if only single letter
arg specifiers are to be used and keep h & ?
consistently for help. Yes I know its minutia, but I don't
have my Coco setup to see if I can actually make
usable disks and I've been working on "the dark side" as
a software test engineer :-).

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  • Tormod Volden

    Tormod Volden - 2020-04-26

    os9 format doesn't use -h for heads any longer (-ss and -ds instead) so we can add -h for help now.

    os9 dump uses -h for "header"

    All others use -h for help.

     
  • Tormod Volden

    Tormod Volden - 2020-05-01
    • summary: os9format help argument consistency --> os9format / os9dump help argument consistency
    • status: open --> pending
    • Group: --> 2.4
     
  • Tormod Volden

    Tormod Volden - 2020-05-01

    I have added -h to os9format for Toolshed 2.3.
    For os9dump I have introduced -t for "omit header" with a deprecation warning for -h, and later for Toolshed 2.4 we can finally use -h for help there as well.

     

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