Re: save options handling

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Apr-2005, Bill Denney wrote:
>
> | As someone who is more of a user, I'd think that if I give any options 
> | they would override the defaults, and it would be hard for me to debug if 
> | there were other default options that took effect when I gave options.  If 
> | you keep the default options when specific options are used, it would be 
> | helpful to at least give a warning that the other options were used.
>
> I agree, I think that if options are supplied, the default options
> should not be used.  Otherwise, I think we will have a lot of confused
> users wondering why their files are compressed when they just
> specified "-ascii".

I am wondering if instead of this "2-dimensional option space"
we would have just compressed options like that:

-text
-ztext
-binary
-zbinary
...

Perhaps it is not as elegant as David's plan, but it looks more
straightforward to me (and yes, supplied option override the
default).

> jwe

Dmitri.
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