Delivery-Date: Sun Aug 31 19:20:03 2008
Message-Id: <200809010227.m812RZ6m004421@bourbon.usc.edu>
To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu
Subject: Re: Minor warmup project #1 spec change...
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:27:35 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  >       I have already done the coding,everything works  and now the specs is
  > changed !Please clarify, as i also have other projects to do imay get bogged
  > down by these changes.Please let me know if i can leave the command line as
  > per old specifications.

I apologize about the inconvenience it has caused.  But it's
unfortunate that sometimes I have to change specs.

For the rest of the semester, please keep in mind that the
spec can change!  Usually, when there is a major change or
when the change is near the submission deadline, I may extend
the submission deadline.  I think it should take less than 5
minutes for you to change your code to get this to work.  For
such a minor change, there is no extension.
--
Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail, it's a bit confusing to
> have a required argument to begin with a "-" character.  So,
> I have change the commandline syntax for "client" from:
>
>    client {-a|-f|-g} [-o offset] [-m] hostname:port string
>
> to:
>
>    client {adr|fsz|get} [-o offset] [-m] hostname:port string
>
> Please also see the modified examples in the spec.
>
> This way, it is clear that any commandline argument that begins
> with a "-" character is an *optional* commandline argument.  And
> please remember that *optional* commandline arguments can come
> in any order.
> --
> Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>