Terran Melconian pointed out that my theory as to why -help was printed as

"-(help)" in the -help output was probably not the most likely scenario.  Added
his.  ;^>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b03b6e6..304ae74 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Tue Mar 28 16:17:39 2000 Doug Morris <doug@mhost.com>
 
-       * applied Todd Miller's <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> patch to
+       * Applied Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>'s patch to
        dropsbr.c to prevent core dumping on packf. Here's the note
        from his message:
 
-         Since sizeof(buffer) == sizeof(tmpbuffer) packf will dump
-         core on a file w/o a From line with a line >= BUFSIZ.
-         I noticed this because I had a junk file in my mail
-         spool somehow.
+           Since sizeof(buffer) == sizeof(tmpbuffer) packf will dump
+           core on a file w/o a From line with a line >= BUFSIZ.
+           I noticed this because I had a junk file in my mail
+           spool somehow.
 
 Fri Mar 17 11:59:33 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
 
@@ -238,13 +238,18 @@ Fri Feb 04 12:29:12 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
 
        * Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands
        got too cute and had the option itself print out as "-(help)" in
-       the -help output.  I guess the idea was to make reference to the
-       fact that clearly you know about the -help option since you're
-       currently looking at its output.  I think it's a bad idea to
-       overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're
+       the -help output.  One theory is that they were making reference
+       to the fact that clearly you know about the -help option since
+       you're currently looking at its output.  I think it's a bad idea
+       to overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're
        supposed to indicate what abbreviated prefix of the switch you're
-       allowed to specify.  It doesn't make sense to show that you're
-       allowed to "abbreviate" the switch to its entire length.
+       allowed to specify.
+
+       The other theory is that because you can say something like
+       "mhstore -" and get "mhstore: - ambiguous.  It matches" followed
+       by the same list of switches you get with -help, they were saying
+       you can "sorta" abbreviate "-help" as "-".  You don't get the
+       "Usage:" string, though, so it's not really the same thing.
 
 Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
 
@@ -255,8 +260,8 @@ Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
              also makes "-kpop" a command line option, for users who
              would like to use both "kpop" and "pop".
 
-         Did no testing of the new features, as I don't have access to a
-         KPOP server.
+       Did no testing of the new features, as I don't have access to a
+       KPOP server.
 
        * Modified inc.man and msgchk.man to document Wesley's new -kpop.