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Re: [Review: no go] script-20041106-1


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 01:04:56PM -0800, Andrey Butov wrote:
> >The script command here is identical in options to the Solaris/Darwin
> >implementation, meaning it takes the -a option to append and nothing
> >else.  There are other implementations which offer more options, but
> >I've used the Solaris version for years, and wanted to implement a
> >version identical to that one to Cygwin.  To cygwin implementations
> >have to follow a certain specific UNIX implementation?
>
> Ok.  My very strong preference is that we should be using the same
> tools as most linux distros.  SuSE and Fedora say this:
>
> NAME
>      script - make typescript of terminal session
>
> SYNOPSIS
>      script [-a] [-c COMMAND] [-f] [-q] [-t] [file]
>
> I'd rather not deviate any further from the linux standard by including
> tools which do not conform to linux usage.

<innocent look>
Does this mean we're chucking ash?
<evil grin>
	Igor
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