On Friday 07 October 2005 10:44, you wrote:
Is a -v option really needed? You can always do:
No, it is not really needed, but it would be usefull. Most unix programs reply the versions when running with -v and then exit. That is very usefull when trying to find a program, because -v is not likely to cause any harm.
% gsi -e "(pretty-print (system-version))" 40065 % gsi -e "(pretty-print (system-version-string))" "4.0 beta 15"
I am not interested on gsi, gsc is the program that has a conflicting name with another very widely used and installed tool. gsc is the one that gets renamed on packages to avoid conflict. So, I should start running a set of programs with -i -e "(pretty-print (system-version-string))" until one responds. I'll preffer to just use -v.
Thank you.