[1660] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: preliminary appdefaults patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Aug 28 19:32:26 1996
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>, Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>,
"E. Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb@ql.org>, kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil,
krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Date: 28 Aug 1996 19:31:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: Sam Hartman's message of 27 Aug 1996 19:22:25 -0400
> OK, so you *have* to use a long option to turn something off? That
> sounds reasonable, I guess.
It doesn't have to be that way. We chose to go with "--foo" and
"--no-foo" instead of "-x" and "-y", because opposites are much more
obvious with the former. With short options the only "obvious"
pairing is between upper- and lower-case, but if both are already used
with non-opposite meanings, there's no obvious place to go from there.
