Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Bernard A Badger" To: Subject: RE: trivial mkpasswd defect Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:27:15 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020529173226.M30892@cygbert.vinschen.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:32 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: Jon LaBadie > Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect > > > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:14:14AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > mkpasswd reports '?' is a valid help option but fails to accept it. > > > > $ mkpasswd --help > > Usage: mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain] > > > > This program prints a /etc/passwd file to stdout > > > > Options: > > ... snip ... > > -?,--help displays this message > > > > $ mkpasswd -? > > mkpasswd: unknown option -- ? > > Thanks. This will go away in the next version. I hope you mean that '-?' will work, not that '-?' will be taken out of the usage. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/