[rescue] Hark, something from the depths of the storage closet!

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net> wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 May 2003, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > 
> > > Personally, I find it humorous that 'true' has a built-in help
> > > system...
> > 
> > Are you talking about GNU true?  I'm just surprised that it can't
> > check or send electronic mail.
> 
> Doesn't it spawn emacs for that?

Gnu 'true' has a command line help option ("--help") and a version
option ("--version") that can't be abbreviated... why not?

It also has a man page... as well as an "info" page, and if you set the
"POSIXLY_CORRECT" environment variable it will act like original true
and ignore command line options...

Finally, it says it was written by no one - if that is true (it was
never written), how can it be copyrighted? (wouldn't an author be
needed?)
 

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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