14 Mar
2020
14 Mar
'20
8:13 a.m.
At Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:36:47 +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Command line options and complexity
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 16:22:01 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Because of course NetBSD has chosen a different option letter: 'M'
Unfortunately on NetBSD and FreeBSD the appearance of commas (or
whatever is appropriate) depends on the locale being correctly
configured, and this is not always so easy to do!
--
Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org>
Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods(a)robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods(a)planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods(a)avoncote.ca>
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Greg 'groggy'
Lehey wrote:
Yes, currently only FreeBSD has it.
And then there's the question why you don't like the standard output.
Because the number strings are too long and difficult to read, maybe?
That's the rationale for the -, option.
More than likely; as I approach age 68 I notice that I'm losing some
cognitive facility... I might start using "," and see if I like it, but I
see that the Mac doesn't have it (my Penguin is off the air at the
moment), and having it as an environment variable would be nice.