Re: GnomeCLI

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>
To: Tim Moore <tmoore@tembel.org>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: GnomeCLI


>or store all the command-line option info
>externally, for each tool.  The second option would lead to a
>maintenance nightmare, considering all the different versions of
>the hundreds of CLI programs that exist for UNIX...not to mention
>the vast differences (POSIX vs. non-POSIX, etc) between UNIX
>flavors, given the same tool!  If it's part of GNOME, it'll have
>to be (potentially at least) pan-platform.


Do man files have a standard form?  Could we extract command line options
and descriptions from them?