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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers man synopsis standard compliance Post 302149331 by porter on Wednesday 5th of December 2007 04:20:06 PM
Old 12-05-2007
Interesting, GNU coding standards are very lean on this topic.

I've had a look at a Solaris example...

Code:
     man [-] [-adFlrt] [-M path] [-T macro-package]  [-s section]
     name...

Notice that there is not an option "-adFlrt", they are all different flags, but with no inclusive OR between them. I would tend towards the exclusive OR however I would make the documentation concise and remove ambiguity.
 

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CHECKERS(6)							   Games Manual 						       CHECKERS(6)

NAME
checkers - game SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/checkers DESCRIPTION
Checkers uses standard notation for the board: BLACK +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ |//// | 1 | //// | 2 | //// | 3 | //// | 4 | |//// | | //// | | //// | | //// | | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | 5 | //// | 6 | //// | 7 | //// | 8 | //// | | | //// | | //// | | //// | | //// | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ |//// | 9 | //// | 10 | //// | 11 | //// | 12 | |//// | | //// | | //// | | //// | | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | 13 | //// | 14 | //// | 15 | //// | 16 | //// | | | //// | | //// | | //// | | //// | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ |//// | 17 | //// | 18 | //// | 19 | //// | 20 | |//// | | //// | | //// | | //// | | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | 21 | //// | 22 | //// | 23 | //// | 24 | //// | | | //// | | //// | | //// | | //// | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ |//// | 25 | //// | 26 | //// | 27 | //// | 28 | |//// | | //// | | //// | | //// | | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | 29 | //// | 30 | //// | 31 | //// | 32 | //// | | | //// | | //// | | //// | | //// | +-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ +-----+------+------+----WHITE----+------+------+------+ Black plays first. The program normally plays white. To specify a move, name the square moved from and the square moved to. For multiple jumps name all the squares touched. Certain commands may be given instead of moves: reverse Reverse roles; the program takes over your pieces. backup Undo the last move for each player. list Print the record of the game. move Let the program select a move for you. print Print a map of the present position. CHECKERS(6)
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