"noisy" programs

GRASS GRASS user
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grass programs may be naturally verbose and have a -q (quiet) flag, or
grass programs may be naturally terse and have a -v (verbose) flag.
Which situation is preferred by users?

Even though I *personally* usually prefer quiet programs, I believe it is easier
for experienced users to use -q than novices to use -v. By the way, I think that
Mark Line's idea looks interesting, though not particularly pratical to
implement across the board.

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Malcolm D. Williamson - Research Assistant E-mail: malcolm@cast.uark.edu
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies Telephone: (501) 575-6159
Ozark Rm. 12 Fax: (501) 575-3846
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

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On Thu, 13 Jan 1994, Malcolm Williamson wrote:

By the way, I think that
Mark Line's idea looks interesting, though not particularly pratical to
implement across the board.

I was assuming that if a library function were implemented to check for
-q's and/or -v's and called in all programs that care, then it would be
just as easy (by a line or two) for that function to check the environment
variable first.

-- Mark

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