RE: Object/size listing on IFS -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Tue, 8 May 2001, Buck Calabro wrote:
> 
> On a real *nix system, "--help" would give a somewhat meaningful synopsis .
> QSH is somewhat less helpful.
> 

"--help" sounds to me like a GNU extension...  not part of a "real *nix
system".   Very possibly part of a LINUX system, but that's another
story.  I know that the ls on my BSD systems don't support "--help", 
and they're a superset of the IEEE Std 1003.2 (POSIX.2) standard.

If you want a standard way of finding help in UNIX, "man" is the way to
go.

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