[3112] in SIPB bug reports
Re: "This program has been de-supported by the SIPB..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (raeburn@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 14 16:56:49 1992
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:56:07 -0400
From: raeburn@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9208141847.AA17139@bill-the-cat.MIT.EDU> (mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU)
From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 14:47:19 EDT
Besides what Barry said, some of us use cal in scripts, rather than
interactively. For example, I use it to generate directory names (some
of you know about this; if you don't, you probably don't want to
know...).
So silently falling back to the old behavior, which may be wrong for
your scripts, is the right answer?
I think printing a warning message (to stderr, preferably including
the program name) and then running the Athena version is probably
closest to reasonable, but it can't do the right thing for everyone in
all cases.
