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On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke 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, 

I don't think so.  The -s and -l modifiers don't make any sense with -u.
There's no short or long unix path.


Corinna

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