Re: [Gnumed-devel] --foo syntax meaning, conventions etc.

[E Dodd]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 16:09, J Busser wrote:
> At 5:18 AM +0200 3/27/05, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> >Ok. Don't worry. It has nothing to do with coding or module-writing.
> >Do you know the conncept of commandline switches ?
>
> Yes. I have gotten a bit familiar with them, though I had never seen
> the convention of double hyphen (--) which is why I wondered if it
> pertained to something else...
>

double hyphen usually means plain text follows
single hyphen means hieroglyphics follows

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 --Larry Wall