From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c8d52df342ee757 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnatmake command line parameter - newbie question References: <41544294.8040009@mailinator.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:59:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.153 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1096228771 63.184.104.153 (Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:59:31 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:59:31 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4230 Date: 2004-09-26T19:59:31+00:00 List-Id: Phil wrote: > when i used unix 10 to 15 > years ago there was ALWAYS a white space or some non alphabet > character between parameters, say a non alphabet character if the > parameters were associated. One thing I've learned from decades of using UNIX is that prior experience is never a guide to how to use a new command. > The problem was screen size/fontsize/font....don't know exactly. I could understand that resulting in -ltestsub or -l. Since clear understanding of exactly what was posted is essential in cases like this, it would be a good idea to find a way to display posts that doesn't make 'l' and 'I' look the same. -- Jeff Carter "Sons of a silly person." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 02