* Mon 2007-10-22 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> INBOX > Jari Aalto wrote: > >> This contradicts the de facto convention that people are used to in >> popular Unix programs. > > Not really, there are for example a great many man pages that list > --help and --version last since they're the least used options. cp(1) > and ls(1) amoung them.
If you look at the listing of ls(1) and cp(1) they uniformally list the options in alphabetical order. There is a special SELINUX section and exception for --help option only. Similarly for usermod(1), mv(1), tar(1), head(1) and other standard commands. Jari -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]