[MPlayer-users] NOVIRUS: -version flag

[Wrigley, Ave]

> On Tuesday, 03 August 2004 at 12:09, Wrigley, Ave wrote:
> > Is there any chance of adding a -version flag to mplayer?
> 
> What's wrong with
> mplayer | head -1
> ?

Nothing - if you know about it, it is just that --version (and --help,
for that matter) are useful and relatively standard options that are
easy to provide. Eric Raymond, in "The Art of Unix Programming"
(http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch10s05.html#id2948149), provides a
useful list of standard options that you might expect to find in a UNIX
program.
 
> And again, there's your 30-line signature, completely out of 
> proportion and totally unacceptable according to any 
> netiquette. You must shorten it to the usual 4 lines.

Yes - I know! I am really sorry about this, but our corporate mail
server adds this automatically. I will try to set up another e-mail
account for posting to this list.

Ave.
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