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From: "Lev Bishop" <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?
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On 5/23/07, Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> wrote:
> Lev Bishop wrote:
> > Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and
> > why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the
> > user to specify an additional flag.
>
> ...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags,
> thus '-ul' is also reasonable. I did suggest that '-l' should /imply/
> '-w' unless '-u' is used.

Well, currently it treats -us or -ul or plain -l or plain -s all as
errors and gives the usage message.

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