Re: [gnome-love] Command-line usability

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:46 -0700, Soyapi Mumba wrote:

> Is there any standard in GNOME's (or Linux/Unix)
> documentation on which command-line options should be
> used for what? 

Here's what the GNU Coding Standards recommend:
http://www.mirror5.com/prep/standards_18.html

FWIW, Sun has a similar (but more rigorous) command line standard called
CLIP, which is closely aligned with IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 (SUSv3).  I
don't think either of those are (freely) available to read online,
though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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