www/fun/jokes long-options.html

[Joakim Olsson]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Joakim Olsson <jocke>   08/01/06 12:45:20

Modified files:
        fun/jokes      : long-options.html 

Log message:
        Fixed invalid HTML.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/fun/jokes/long-options.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.10&r2=1.11

Patches:
Index: long-options.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/fun/jokes/long-options.html,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -b -r1.10 -r1.11
--- long-options.html   6 Jan 2008 12:42:32 -0000       1.10
+++ long-options.html   6 Jan 2008 12:45:12 -0000       1.11
@@ -5,25 +5,29 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
 
 <h2>Long options?</h2>
-
 <p>
-
 From: address@hidden
 To: address@hidden
-
+</p>
+<p>
 In gnu.announce R M Stallman wrote:
+</p>
 <blockquote>
+<p>
    `--' as a prefix,
    `-=' as a prefix,
 
 * How easy is it to type each of these alternatives.
+</p>
 </blockquote>
+<p>
 In the beginning was the Unix and the Unix spoke and said "Hello
 world\n". Not did it say "Hello New Jersey\n", nor "Hello USA\n". But
 it said "Hello world\n". For the joy of good computing is not for
 USAmericans alone, but for the whole world to share. And the Unix saw
 that this was good.
-
+</p>
+<p>
 And so says the holy manual, that a USAmerican keyboard layout has
 minus and equals, both unshifted, on two keys next to each other. But
 the book of internationalization of the holy manual says that so is
@@ -31,25 +35,32 @@
 internationalization, a Swedish keyboard has minus, unshifted, on the
 key corresponding to USAmerican slash, while the equals, on the same
 keyboard, is typed as a shifted digit zero.
-
+</p>
+<p>
 Thus, teaches us the gospel, the sequence "-=" as a prefix for long
 options would be very hard for Swedish computer users (and many others
 world wide) to type.
+</p>
 <blockquote>
+<p>
 * How error-prone are they.
+</p>
 </blockquote>
+<p>
 Dunno.
+</p>
 <blockquote>
+<p>
 * How esthetically clean are they.
+</p>
 </blockquote>
+<p>
 Of course, the "long minus" ("--") is an ideal prefix for "long
 options". I congratulate the inventor of this idea and hope it wins.
 -- 
 Lars Aronsson, Lysator computer club, Linkoping University, Sweden
      address@hidden    Voice phone at home +46-13-17 2143
-
 </p>
-
 <p>
 <a href="/fun/humor.html">Other humor</a>
 in the GNU Humor Collection.</p>
@@ -86,7 +97,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/01/06 12:42:32 $
+$Date: 2008/01/06 12:45:12 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>