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 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.

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+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
+       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.
+
 Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net>
 
        * Applied wesley.craig@umich.edu's KPOP patches.  According to him: