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Re: psql: anyone ever notice?

Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> — 2000-11-20T02:56:06Z

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:47:32AM +0800, xuyifeng wrote:
> "?" shouldn't be used as a help screen argument.

generally, code doesn't explicitly look for a '?'.

rather, the code notes that the character is not mapped to any argument,
and prints out a usage statement.

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