From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Command line options and complexity
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:13:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1jCwJF-0036tPC@more.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200313003647.GM89512@eureka.lemis.com>
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At Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:36:47 +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Command line options and complexity
>
> On Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 16:22:01 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > >
> > > And then there's the question why you don't like the standard output.
> > > Because the number strings are too long and difficult to read, maybe?
> > > That's the rationale for the -, option.
> >
> > More than likely; as I approach age 68 I notice that I'm losing some
> > cognitive facility... I might start using "," and see if I like it, but I
> > see that the Mac doesn't have it (my Penguin is off the air at the
> > moment), and having it as an environment variable would be nice.
>
> Yes, currently only FreeBSD has it.
Because of course NetBSD has chosen a different option letter: 'M'
Unfortunately on NetBSD and FreeBSD the appearance of commas (or
whatever is appropriate) depends on the locale being correctly
configured, and this is not always so easy to do!
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Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>
Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods@robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods@avoncote.ca>
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-03 18:15 Jon Steinhart
2020-03-03 18:44 ` Adam Thornton
2020-03-04 4:11 ` Tyler Adams
2020-03-04 6:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-04 6:48 ` arnold
2020-03-04 21:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 0:49 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2020-03-05 20:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 22:01 ` William Cheswick
2020-03-04 21:50 ` Random832
2020-03-04 23:19 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-05 6:12 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-03-04 22:03 ` Random832
2020-03-04 23:25 ` Terry Jones
2020-03-10 23:03 ` Dan Stromberg
2020-03-11 3:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-11 4:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-11 22:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-11 23:14 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-12 0:42 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 0:53 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-12 3:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 3:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-13 1:02 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 5:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-12 6:48 ` Peter Jeremy
2020-03-12 7:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-12 7:42 ` Warner Losh
2020-03-12 23:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 5:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-12 5:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-13 0:36 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-13 11:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 2:13 ` Greg A. Woods [this message]
2020-03-14 4:31 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-04 14:06 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-03-04 16:17 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-04 17:25 ` Bakul Shah
2020-03-05 0:55 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-05 2:05 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-03-05 4:17 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-03-05 14:53 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-05 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 21:56 ` Warner Losh
2020-03-08 5:26 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-08 5:32 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-08 9:30 ` Tyler Adams
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2020-03-09 21:06 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-09 21:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-03-11 17:41 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-11 21:29 ` Warner Losh
2020-03-12 0:13 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-12 0:34 ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-12 12:57 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-12 19:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-08 9:51 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-03-05 4:57 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-05 22:17 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2020-03-10 16:15 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-10 17:38 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-10 17:44 ` Bakul Shah
2020-03-10 18:09 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-10 18:42 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-10 19:38 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-13 10:45 Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 4:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-14 19:52 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-14 20:25 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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