Am 23.06.2008 15:45, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>>
>>> for datasets with a lot of variables I think it would be useful if
'open'
>>> accepted a --quiet option, which would mean that the variable names are
>>> not
>>> listed/printed.
>>>
>>> what do you think?
>> Good idea.
> Even better, I'd like to have a --verbose option. That is,
> without options you don't get the variable list, but you can
> have if you want.
>
> Yes, Sven, this would be backward-incomaptible, but I think I
> can live with it ;-)
Well since in this case neither calculations nor results are involved I
think it's not too bad. :-)
I've added a quiet option in CVS, but I'm happy to change that if
there's a consensus. Though it strikes me a verbose option would
be somewhat redundant, since
open foo --verbose
would be equivalent to
open foo
varlist
I wasn't even aware of varlist...
So I would be slightly in favor of your synthesis:
w/o variable list:
open x.gdt
w/ variable list:
open x.gdt
varlist
The second-best choice would be:
w/o variable list:
open x.gdt --quiet
w/ variable list:
open x.gdt
-sven