Deprecate -o/-O offset switches in favor of -b switches
resilar opened this issue · comments
Quoting myself from comment thread of issue #9 "Lazy -b
evaluation"
I think we should consider deprecating offset switches
-o/-O
at some point because-b
switches are now expressive and user-friendly enough to offer the same functionality:-o 42
and-b 42:
are essentially identical. Similarly,-O 42
and-b -42:
are equivalent to each other. The only disadvantage of-b
command-line options is that appending to the input is unsupported when forging CRC checksums, whereas-o
and-O
do support appending to the end of the input message. However, the current append mechanism should probably be rewritten anyway to support prepending also (as discussed in issue #11).