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).