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[gnugo-devel] bug: --help text printed to stderr
From: |
Simon D Howard |
Subject: |
[gnugo-devel] bug: --help text printed to stderr |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:10:16 +0000 (GMT) |
Using gnugo version 3.4 (the version in debian/unstable), I noticed a bug
in GNU go. Running gnugo --help, the help text is printed to stderr rather
than stdout. The GNU coding standards say that help text should be printed
to stdout:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_18.html
Printing help text to stderr is annoying as it is not possible to pipe the
output through a pager like 'more'. Also it is conceptually wrong from the
start, as if you are providing the 'help' option to the program, the help
page is its correct output - it is not an error.
I would be very grateful if you could fix this problem.
Simon
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