On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:10:53PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
