From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10415 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2000 17:11:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sunsite.auc.dk) (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Jul 2000 17:11:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 19788 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2000 17:11:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12428 Received: (qmail 19774 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2000 17:11:02 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1000728171041.ZM9728@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:10:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to Juhapekka Tolvanen "Re: Bug or feature?" (Jul 28, 7:30pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Juhapekka Tolvanen Subject: Re: Bug or feature? Cc: Zsh hackers list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jul 28, 7:30pm, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: } } % zsh --version Hmm, I'm a little surprised that zsh silently ignored that. I believe it's treating it the same as `--' (end of options). Zsh is not a GNU package and doesn't understand any "long options". } http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/user/guckes/version/ Sven's a good guy, but I think he's misguided in this case. (It also hadn't stopped him from being a zsh user, last time I talked to him.) Furthermore, zsh attempts to give a reasonable impersonation of a number of older standard shells, none of which would do what Sven wants when given --version as an argument. I also note: zagzig[265] bash --version bash: --: bad option Given that `--' is a perfectly good option on its own, it's pretty clear that bash is treating `--version' as `-' followed by eight individual single-letter options. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net