small doc fix

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Fri Oct 4 00:00:15 CEST 2002


On Thu, 03 Oct 2002, David Relson wrote:

> At 04:52 PM 10/3/02, Clint Adams wrote:
> >> Looking at the code, most of the verbosity controlled output is to 
> >standard
> >> error.  I'd like to see it go to standard output.  I think standard error
> >> should be reserved for error conditions.  I am willing to make the needed
> >> code changes.
> >
> >This is a good idea except for -p.
> 
> I take this to mean that you don't want debug output going to the same 
> destination as the passthrough (message) output.  I actually find that to 
> be very useful.  When testing it allows me to easily save debug output 
> _with_ the message.

In that case, this should be explicitly enabled by another option. "-v"
in many programs enables stderr verbose, in order to NOT let the output
look any different from what you'd get without -v. A "debug" option
might be useful.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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