From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:09:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show the usage list
X-Git-Tag: 1.3.4~15
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3448301f6e7ff132e82c51f31e96a386e72b028d;p=apache

Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show the usage list
but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid command. OTOH a lot of
users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and instead are annoyed for ages
by our huge unreadable list of directives.  So we now changed the command line
options this way:

 1. `-L' => `-R'
    Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
    very similar to the popular linker option.

 2. `-h' => `-L'
    Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
    large list of directives implemented by these modules.  This is also
    consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).

 3. `-?' => `-h'
    Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)

The manual page was adjusted accordingly.

Submitted by: Ralf S. Engelschall
Reviewed by: Randy Terbush
PR: 2714


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@82497 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/invoking.html b/docs/manual/invoking.html
index 3c699d74e4..bcabbd79fd 100644
--- a/docs/manual/invoking.html
+++ b/docs/manual/invoking.html
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ behavior and performance of the apache server (<EM>e.g.</EM>,
 <SAMP>-DUSE_MMAP_FILES</SAMP>),
 then exit.
 
-<DT><A NAME="help"><CODE>-h</CODE></A>
+<DT><A NAME="help"><CODE>-L</CODE></A>
 <DD>Give a list of directives together with expected arguments and
 places where the directive is valid. (New in Apache 1.2)
 
diff --git a/docs/manual/invoking.html.en b/docs/manual/invoking.html.en
index 3c699d74e4..bcabbd79fd 100644
--- a/docs/manual/invoking.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/invoking.html.en
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ behavior and performance of the apache server (<EM>e.g.</EM>,
 <SAMP>-DUSE_MMAP_FILES</SAMP>),
 then exit.
 
-<DT><A NAME="help"><CODE>-h</CODE></A>
+<DT><A NAME="help"><CODE>-L</CODE></A>
 <DD>Give a list of directives together with expected arguments and
 places where the directive is valid. (New in Apache 1.2)