Bug 177066 - cdrecord -help should go to stdout
Summary: cdrecord -help should go to stdout
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cdrtools
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Harald Hoyer
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Reported: 2006-01-05 22:04 UTC by Ed Avis
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-04-19 11:38:02 UTC
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Description Ed Avis 2006-01-05 22:04:56 UTC 
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Description of problem:
By the normal convention, 'cdrecord -help' should print its text to stdout not stderr.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cdrecord-2.01.1-9.0.FC4.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
% cdrecord -help >out 2>err
% ls -l out err

Actual Results:  cdrecord wrote some text on stderr but none on stdout.

Expected Results:  Should have written to stdout.  See 'grep --help' for precedent.

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