[Asterisk-Users] "-p"

[Steven Critchfield]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 05:36, James Sizemore wrote:
> Thanks I tried "--help",  "-h" is a little non standard for GPL software.
> "-h" normally means human readable. See ls, df...ect

For commands dealing with file sizes maybe, but a lot of software that
supports long and short command switches have -h and --help as the
usage. Check out info, perl. Also to add if a command has a network
component, -h means host as in whois.

> But what ever works!  This does fix a wold of problems. It really
> should be on by default, with an option to turn it off, not on. <smile>
> Happily added to my init scripts for Asterisk.

I think this was an option added at a point after many people had been
using asterisk. I think it was added in such a way that you had to
enable it to get it for least surprise. I don't have facts to back these
last 2 sentences up, so I may well be wrong. I think it is right though.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>